Finding Belonging After Loss
By Margo Fowkes The moment Jimmy died, the thread tying me to my place in the world snapped. In an instant, I lost...
Finding Belonging After Loss
Grieving
What Do I Write in A Sympathy Card When I Don’t Know the Family Well?
What Do I Write in A Sympathy Card When I Don’t Know the Family Well?
While at an art show with my custom-designed Bible verse stationery, I watched a couple look through my greeting...
How to Care for a Friend Who is Grieving This Christmas
How to Care for a Friend Who is Grieving This Christmas
Christmas is an especially difficult holiday when there is an empty chair at the table following the death of a...
Music For The Grieving
Music For The Grieving
Music helps a grieving heart. Whenever someone close to us loses a loved one we want to do something to help. ...
In Spite of Ourselves
In Spite of Ourselves
Post by Amanda Price At the Memorial Service for a lifelong friend, my husband and I could feel the tension between...
Reflections on Romans 8:38
Reflections on Romans 8:38
By Judy VanderWilt A note from Karen: Dear readers, Marlin VanderWilt was Pastor Emeritus of my congregation, Hope...
Infertility is a Journey Not a Race
Infertility is a Journey Not a Race
by Lisa Braunius If you had told me when my husband and I decided to start a family that our journey would take...
Light a Yahrzeit Candle on the Anniversary of a Loved One’s Death
Light a Yahrzeit Candle on the Anniversary of a Loved One’s Death
When I attended Western Theological Seminary, I was befriended by a man named Stan, one of my professors. As the...
