27 results for tag: Discussions in Grief
Discussions in Grief: Entitlement
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
The worst thing imaginable has happened. You have lost your baby. You have suffered greatly and experienced more pain than most everyone you know. You have hit rock bottom, and the only solace is knowing that things can only go up from here.
That’s how I felt after losing my daughter, Kinley. ...
Discussions in Grief: Fear
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
Anxiety and worry have been consistent struggles in my life before loss and after. It wasn’t until I experienced the profound grief of baby loss that I was able to identify the root of my anxiety as fear, and the root of my fear as a lack of trust in the Lord. In my loss, I suddenly became sensitive ...
Discussions in Grief: Misunderstood
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
“I got back in my car and cried.”
It was a text I received from a friend who had recently lost her baby far too soon. I knew exactly what she meant.
She had just been at a baby shower for another friend, and had left a little early. When she got back in her car and shut the door, the tears ...
Discussions in Grief: Withdrawn
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
I don’t mind going to the dentist, but some of my friends and family avoid it. I avoid traffic, but I have friends who are completely unaffected by the stress of bumper-to-bumper cars and enjoy the time alone and the chance to catch up on phone calls or listen to podcasts.
Whenever there is ...
Discussions in Grief: Remembering
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
As I sit here in front of my computer getting ready to share my heart with you, the lights of our Christmas tree are twinkling in the corner of the living room and the stockings are hanging just to my right. Christmas is both a painful and sweet reminder of our Sarabeth who was with us last year, alive ...
Discussions in Grief: Forgiving Others
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
I slowly turned the corner into the playground parking lot. The nerves in my stomach were so intense I felt as though I might get sick. It had only been a few weeks since I buried my only son, Chance, and this was my attempt at pulling back the covers and rejoining a community of friends. This was ...
Discussions in Grief: Envy
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
Discussions in Grief: Questioning
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
When I was pregnant with our daughter and she was given a fatal diagnosis, we set our hearts and minds to believing and praying for healing. In faith we prayed over her, we read and spoke Scripture over her, we gathered around us a community of prayer warriors, and we really believed God would answer ...
Discussions in Grief: Numbness
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
I slowly climbed into the wheelchair ready to be escorted out. The nurse pushed me out of room 307 and down the hall of the labor and delivery unit. Nurses stopped and squeezed my neck and said their goodbyes. Strangers, there I assume to meet their newest family member, gave looks of sympathy. They ...
Discussions in Grief: New Normal
Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.
Normal.
I love that word. I didn’t always use to love it. That word use to be...well...normal to me. But that was before having devastating ultrasounds and inconclusive tests with my hope baby that showed abnormal results. So, yeah, normal became one of my favorite words in subsequent pregnanci...
