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I am reading a book for work. In the book, it stops and asks you questions to reflect on. This one particular section was talking about not only addressing the surface issue when helping people, but needing to get down to the root of the problem. The question it asked was “try to explain whyContinue reading “Repentance”

Waiting on the Lord is the hardest thing I’ve had to do. Yes, you read that right. Even after all I’ve been through,  waiting on the Lord, and His timing, has been the hardest thing I have ever been called to do. Of course losing my husband and father to my children was hard. It’sContinue reading “Waiting on the Lord”

I recently started a new job and took a personality test to help my team get to know me and understand how I work better.  While taking the test, and reflecting on the results,  it was evident how anxious I have become. I knew I had anxiety.  I grew up with it, and am notContinue reading “Fears”

It is usually a bitter-sweet time to put your house on the market. With new possibilities and memories on the horizon, you are sad about leaving the place you’ve called home, and made so many memories in. It’s even more so when that home you are putting up for sale is the one you sharedContinue reading “The Bitter-Sweetness of Life”

As I drove home from church today, I was reflecting on the fact that Rick and I would have been celebrating 16 years of marriage this week. I was sad. The girls were impromptu invited to a friend’s house after church, so I drove home alone. I turned on the radio and felt God talkingContinue reading “Hearing from God”

It’s been a while since I’ve wrote. Life trudged on, and got busy. Soccer season started, grief groups, work duties, appointments, and just the mundaneness of life. Next thing you know, soccer season is over, summer is approaching, and you are wondering “How in the world did we get here?” Life soldiered on, somehow, withoutContinue reading “Writing My Story”

Read through that again, but more carefully. Although I never saw grief as a task to complete, the words that are spoken are true. Absorption.  Adjustment. Acceptance.  Words not typically associated with grief and losing someone. But all are something that is needed. Absorption. The entire occupation of the mind. Assimilation. Incorporation. Preoccupation. Engrossment. The process orContinue reading “The “A”‘s of Losing Someone”

You hear it said that when somebody you love dies, a piece of you dies along with them. When it is your spouse – your soul mate – half of who you were dies. You are forever changed. Someone asked me how I’ve changed since the loss of Rick. What don’t I do anymore? IContinue reading “How Grief Changes You”

Music is my outlet. It has gotten me through some tough times in life. Now is no different. Music speaks to me differently now. I hear things I haven’t before. One song that I have listened to countless times before has a line that really struck me the other night. “I am not skilled toContinue reading “Understanding”

This is what the year in review looks like for me. It looked like loss and grief. It started in March when things started shutting down due to quarantine. I suffered the loss of my life as I knew it. On Friday, the 13th, the world stopped. My children didn’t walk back into a schoolContinue reading “Focus”