What is it that happens when we begin to let our heads lead our lives instead of our Spirit? If our lives are “like a mist”, a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes, so fragile, why then do we allow our lives to become so jaded by the world? How is it that along the way we permit ourselves to lose our child-like attributes that God sees as essential and should be indispensable to us? There are things that we let slip from our grasp, sometimes without even realizing they’re gone – Awe and wonder. Imagination with wild abandon. Playfulness. Humility. Trust. Creativity. Energy. Willingness to…

We are navigating uncharted waters for our time. Foremost on my mind is the suffering of others and the invisible enemy they and their families are fighting. My morning prayer time is now spent in quiet devotion for those that are facing the agonizing reality that they did not have the precious few moments needed to say goodbye to someone they dearly loved. Families prohibited from entering hospitals, there is no opportunity for last “I love yous”. No space in time to express final sentiments that have gone unsaid. Not even a brief chance to hold a hand as this life flows to the juncture of the next, for eternity.…

“You had something there… but you were never brave enough to use it.” Words we fear. What has God given you and how does He want you to use it? This is a question we are constantly longing the answer to. If you begin a Google search on life’s purpose, it quickly becomes a tangled up mess of opinions and abstract thinking that can leave you feeling the answer is unobtainable. Some believe that we have been given the tools we need and it is completely up to us to be good stewards, using them to the best of our abilities. Then there are those who believe that God has…

So this post has evolved over a stretch of time, and I am sure its content could continually develop in different directions as the days pass. Once again, please understand this is a journey and my observations only. My intent is to share with those that may, or may not yet, be facing struggles in loss and provide my insight on living through one day at a time. Any loss can send us reeling, in a constant state of questioning and most certainly lamenting over what is no longer present. When things happen unexpectedly it introduces an additional layer of what can be exhausting grief. That additional layer becomes even…

Human nature causes us to spend so much time exhausting ourselves in planning our life’s events… working to coordinate each and every detail of how we think things should go. Scheduling our days, planning our weeks, looking at our journey based on a calendar, chasing time. Hindsight says, honestly, our lives are built by the valuable moments that forever seal their place in our hearts. Some are heartwarming or breathtaking, and some are heartstopping. The moment you see your newborn baby’s face for the first time. The first time you see the ocean. The moment you say “I do”. Your walk across the stage signaling the start of a new…

Walking a path you never would have chosen can happen to anyone. When that path involves the loss of a child, under any circumstances, the pain becomes tangible. You physically feel the loss. You feel it on your skin, you feel it in your heart, you feel it in your head, you feel it with every ounce of your being. I would never try and speak on behalf of others on their grief journey, or marginalize the path of someone in the midst of suffering. Please understand these are my personal thoughts as I navigate my own “unchosen path”. I have been unconditionally blessed by an amazing support system of…