13 results for tag: Links for Hope Moms

Links for Hope Moms: Spring 2020 Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {Even If Not, He is Still Good: Lessons from Habakkuk} // "Earlier this year, we were expecting our first son, Joshua. On April 1st, we woke up excited to see his sweet little body at our anatomy scan, only to face one of the deepest valleys of our lives. Sometime before our twenty-week scan, the Lord saw fit to take Joshua home. We went into the hospital to deliver that evening and went through the longest, saddest night of our married life. After induction began, I looked at ...

Links for Hope Moms: Holiday Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {What Suffering People Wish You Would Do at Christmas} // "Remind them that our faithful Savior will never fail or forsake them. That Jesus walks with them and He weeps with them. Remind them that He knows every detail of their struggle. Remind them that for all of us, the unshakeable hope of Christmas lies solely in Emmanuel, for our God has come to us and will forevermore be with us."{Celebrating Christmas with a Broken Heart}// "In the wake of grief, emotions are ...

Links for Hope Moms: Fall 2019 Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {The Fruit of the Wilderness} // "What’s the point of the wilderness anyway? I’ve asked that question numerous times when I’ve been lost in the desert, wondering if I’d ever find a way out. People told me that God was working, but since I didn’t know what He was doing, I secretly wondered if He was doing anything at all. I didn’t choose the wilderness. No one does. It’s a dark place of loneliness, rejection and despair. But it also cultivates the most life-giving ...

Links for Hope Moms: Spring 2019 Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {Elizabeth Eliiot: 'Your Suffering Is Never for Nothing'} // Read the full article HERE {We Can't Grieve However We Want}// "Subsequent ultrasounds, however, showed that our boys had congenital birth defects. When they were born with crooked joints and extreme muscle weakness, they were immediately intubated. In an instant, a thousand dreams of fatherhood died. Instead of the life we hoped for, we were plunged into round-the-clock intensive care. Three years later we would ...

Links for Hope Moms: Winter 2018 Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {Loving Your Friend Through Infertility} // Following the loss of a child, many Hope Moms, go on to experience secondary infertility. In this post, Meredith Hodge writes about how you can love and serve a friend who is struggling with infertility in a Gospel-centered way. "Mourning together not only unifies us as sisters in Christ, it is also a living example to those around us. Consider Jesus’ response when his dear friend Lazarus died: He wept. To the onlookers observing his ...

Links for Hope Moms: Fall 2018 Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {Trusting God in Grief} // "In the darkness and chaos of grief, we can somehow think that our tears reflect a lack of faith or that our questions about what God is doing constitute rebellion. But is this true? Is it possible to hurt deeply, question God boldly, and not only remain firm in faith but even grow in faith and confidence in God? A panel of those who have dealt with grief and loss will share their experience with these questions— as well as the grace they’ve discovered ...

Links for Hope Moms: Summer 2018 Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. {The Beauty of Lament In Sandra McCrackens New Album} // "The psalms drive us to God, seeking His light in the darkness of earthly toil. They give voice to our protests and frustrations. They provide a framework and vocabulary for approaching God, even when He seems distant. The protests and expressed frustrations of lament might seem beneath the Christian believer, but they are all over the pages of Scripture. McCracken isn’t voicing frustration just to vent. This is not an album ...

Links for Hope Moms {Podcast, Article, & Sermon}

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, resources, and more to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. View past posts in this series here. 1. "Through the Lens," by Holly Colonna & Kristin Hernandez Podcast description: "Gospel-driven conversations on hope in the heartache, where two child-loss mamas discuss suffering and sanctification. No matter what shape your suffering takes, we invite you to join us in authentic conversation as we navigate through the trials of this life, keeping our eyes fixed on the hope of heaven." —Sarah  2. "How Would You Counsel a Couple Curious ...

Links for Hope Moms {Book & Song}

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, resources, and more to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve. View past posts in this series here. 1. “How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil,”  by D. A. Carson “This book can serve to re-calibrate according to a biblical framework our thinking about suffering. If you are seeking to work through your understanding of theology to come to terms with where suffering and grief fits into a biblical worldview, and how Scripture's writers regard suffering, this is a go-to read. Allow me to quote from it at length: ‘Death is not ...

Links for Hope Moms: April Edition

We want to share with you links to posts, videos, and resources from around the web to uplift, help, and encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you grieve.   {Mother's Day and miscarriages: An Interview with Jessalyn Hutto} // "Initially, the most important thing I want to convey to a woman who has miscarried is that her pain has merit. What I mean by this is that I want her to know that what has happened to her truly is as terrible as it feels. I don’t want her to feel burdened to 'get over' her loss quickly simply because it is hard for those around her to understand." {Talk to Your Tears, by John Piper} // "Sowing is simply ...