38 results for tag: Stephanie
The Lord Is My Portion
Growing up as an only child, I never had to worry about who was going to get the biggest or the best portion.
Who got the chocolate chip cookie with the most chips? Me.
Who always got to sit in the front seat on the way home from school? Me again.
Who got all of my parents' attention? Yep, that would be me.
As I got older though, I began to see that the portion I wanted, the portion I envisioned myself having, didn't always go to me.
That other girl got the lead in the school play.
That boy didn't want me as his girlfriend.
That family got to take their baby girl home from the hospital.
There were many times when I felt like my ...
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: 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: 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...
Discussions in Grief: Feeling Robbed
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.
My daughter, Kinley, entered this world at 27 1/2 weeks, trimming three months off my pregnancy. She lived 44 days, cutting a lifetime off her life.
I felt robbed—robbed of my pregnancy, robbed of my daughter, and robbed of all the memories we would have made together.
It wasn't enough ...
Discussions in Grief: Searching
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 just want to know why!" I sobbed into the phone. I was standing in the NICU talking to a friend on the phone after being told my daughter would die. This friend had lost her baby girl 2.5 months ago. Through her tears, she told me something I'll never forget. She said, "There will never be a good ...
Bear Much Fruit: Joy
When I started thinking about joy, the movie "Inside Out" came to mind. In this animated film, Joy is a main character and one of five emotions inside the mind of a young girl. The other emotions are Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. Joy always strives to remain joyful, hence her name, and is the leader of the young girl's emotions.
Have you ever thought about which emotion is leading your life? We have all of these emotions competing for control. Joy and sorrow will even walk hand in hand at times, but only one will lead. It's imperative that sorrow doesn't lead for too long or it will replace joy with despair as its new ...
Yet I Will Praise You: Hannah
History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley.
As mothers, we have a vision for our children's future. It involves happiness and prosperity, all in close proximity to ourselves. We want to control their destiny. We want a guarantee that no harm will come to them.
But that isn’t ever the case. We don’t know what ...
Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Job
Why do bad things happen to good people? This is a question I think everyone has struggled with at some point. Suffering just doesn't make sense. You try so hard to live a good life, and you are rewarded with heartache. We deserve more. We deserve better. Don't we? Let's take a look at a man who could relate to injustice.
Job is described as "blameless and upright; [he] feared God and shunned evil" (Job 1:1). He was "the greatest man among all the people of the East" (1:3). Here we have a good guy, a great guy—the greatest guy. Job lived a prosperous life, but he was humble and put God first.
Satan went before God, and God ...
