A Grandparent’s Grief

Good morning... In our post We Need Friends, I shared about our grieving friend who lost her first grandchild to a miscarriage. "Oh my!" one reader wrote from South Carolina. "God is surely speaking in stereo AGAIN. My heart hurt and my eyes pricked with tears this morning when I read about your class participant’s loss. In 2012 [...]

By |2022-01-24T06:31:00-05:00January 24th, 2022|Friendship, God's Love, Grief|

This Morning’s Funeral

Good morning... He was in my youngest daughter's high school graduating class. She's now twenty-two, he, twenty-three. This morning we will go to his funeral at the school where the kids attended and both of his parents have taught for years. As friend, colleague and school chaplain, my husband will officiate while I am quietly present, bearing witness [...]

By |2022-01-08T09:45:23-05:00January 8th, 2022|God's Love, Grief, Light In Darkness|

Grieving A Child

Good morning... "Hi Sue," she wrote. "I have fully experienced how close the Lord has been in my grief, and no doubt, He alone has saved me. I do feel like He is blessing me tremendously and showing me tremendous favor as I begin to live again after Dalton’s death 5 1/2 years ago. Still so fresh." "However, [...]

By |2021-11-13T04:03:10-05:00November 13th, 2021|Community, Grief, Light In Darkness|

Grieving A Soulmate

Good morning... "Dear Sue, I hope you are doing well," she emailed after yesterday's post, The Blessing Hidden In Grief. "I miss our walks but returning to my position at school fills my days. My students are wonderful. Teaching them fills my heart with joy, and I’m so grateful for this bridge to whatever comes next in my [...]

By |2021-11-12T04:17:38-05:00November 12th, 2021|Grief, Holy Spirit, Trust God|

The Blessing Hidden In Grief

Good morning... "Now with the Awake To Wholeness retreat behind us, might we celebrate your birthday season?" I texted a friend. (As I reflect, I realize that "behind" is the wrong word. It is more accurate to say, "Now with the retreat inside us, might we celebrate?") "And . . . I thoroughly enjoyed retelling the Saturday experience [...]

By |2021-11-11T17:21:56-05:00November 11th, 2021|God's Love, Grief, Healing|

Football And A Funeral

Good morning... Yesterday, I muted Gameday football to watch the funeral of a thirteen year old girl who died last week in a small engine plane crash at a nearby airport. Afterward, I sat in bed and quietly wept. How did each of her parents speak of their only child with such soulful eloquence? How did her pastor [...]

By |2021-10-17T09:43:02-04:00October 17th, 2021|Family and Friends, Grief, Tragedy|

To Love Is Risky

Good morning... "Thank you, Sue," he emailed me yesterday. "We all struggle with the fact that we have a deep and abiding love for others, even though we know with certainty that some will outrun us to the Father’s house. In a way, it is comforting to know that people have struggled with this reality for centuries. I [...]

By |2021-09-23T09:07:43-04:00September 23rd, 2021|Death And Resurrection, God's Love, Grief|

Steve Comforts Those Grieving

Good morning... Steve, my husband, heads up the chaplain team at The Lovett School, the school where two fathers of Lower School students died this week. I had just finished a long phone conversation with a close friend of one of the grieving wives when Steve pulled in the driveway that tragic day. "So did you hear?" Of [...]

By |2021-09-21T07:34:47-04:00September 21st, 2021|Family and Friends, God's Love, Grief|

A Horrific Helicopter Crash

Good morning... Yesterday I woke in deep prayer for the families and friends of the two young fathers from our community who died in a horrific helicopter crash. As I waited for our microwave to heat up some day-old coffee, words from a hymn repeated often in our childhood church strangely sang up through the sorrow in my [...]

By |2021-09-18T09:31:42-04:00September 18th, 2021|Grief, Tragedy, Trust God|

Red Threads of Legacy

Good morning... As we wake on the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, admire with me the touching story of one young man who helped to save as many as twelve people with the final moments of his life. This is how we have discovered love’s reality: Jesus sacrificed his life for us. Because of this great [...]

By |2021-09-11T01:09:59-04:00September 11th, 2021|Death And Resurrection, God's Love, Grief|
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