13 results for tag: Heaven


Heaven: Is My Baby There? {Part 1}

Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part article. Part two will be posted tomorrow. [This article was written in the months after my daughter's home-going in 2013.] In the days after coming home from the hospital where my daughter was stillborn, I sat in bed before the Bible for many hours, searching. I would need to either trust God in the unknown or see Scriptural reason to believe that my daughter resided with Him. Humanly speaking, my most natural belief would have been that she somehow reached heaven. Looking as a mother at the vacant body of a new, precious child could stir no other desire in me than to believe that she was ...

Testimony Tuesday

I once saw a movie or video clip that made a lasting impression on me.  They first showed the view while walking through the streets of a specific city or town.  It was dirty, scary, and broken.  Then they showed the view at night from a mountain.  Lights everywhere, something mysterious, breathtakingly beautiful.  The same city but different viewpoints, different perspectives. My view of heaven has been very limited.  Maybe it’s like that with many people.  I remember thinking previously, what are we going to do all the time for eternity? –almost worried that it is not going to be great at all.  For how long can one sing and pray? I ...

Anchored: Heaven

Over the next nine weeks on the blog, we will be following along with our fall Hope Groups as they go through Hope Mommies’ newly published Bible Study — Anchored.  For those of you who did not register for a group this year, this will be an opportunity to walk through the topics studied in our Hope Groups. For those of you who are currently participating in a Hope Group, our desire is for these posts to reinforce the lessons you are learning with your group.   Wherever you are in your journey through loss and grief, I pray that this series will encourage your heavy hearts, remind you of truth, and point you to ...