Links for Hope Moms: March Edition

1. {“Today Would Have Been Our Daughter’s First Birthday,” by Jackie Gibson via The Gospel Coalition}// “Today should have been our daughter’s first birthday. The great enemy—death—has stolen something precious from us. Robert L. Dabney, who lost two sons, described death as a ‘cruel destroyer.’ In a letter to his brother, he wrote: ‘Ah! When the mighty wings of the angel of death nestles over your heart’s treasures, and his black shadow broods over your home, it shakes the heart with a shuddering terror and a horror of great darkness.’ […] And yet today was never going to be Leila’s first birthday. “
2. {“Giving God Glory in the Sunshine and the Perma-Cloud,” by Heidi Jo Fulk via Revive Our Hearts} // Though years out from the loss of her first child and with another child since, the author reflects upon how she did give God glory in the “perma-gray” season of loss and how, despite our changing circumstances, we always have the great purpose of giving God the glory in our lives: “We found that God is worthy of glory anytime because of who He is, not what we were experiencing.”
3. {Flashback post: “Lollipops,” by Erin Cushman} // “Would my heart be more content if I truly grasped the real state of my soul — in all it’s poverty and wretchedness — yet being loved, chosen, cleansed, clothed, and fed by Grace?”

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Lianna (@liannadavis) and her husband, Tyler, have two dear girls—one who lives in heaven and one who lives on earth. Lianna serves with Hope Mommies. Find her and other Christian women writing at Of Larks.