“So let my heart tell You again

When seasons change and stories end,

Your steady love, 

It will sustain me through it all,

Jesus, Your love.”

– Kristene DiMarco

I think it’s safe to say I’ve never had a season of change, transition, grief, and endings like these last two years have been.

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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” 

These opening words from C.S. Lewis in his book, A Grief Observed, seem so fitting to describe my thoughts lately. The one-year mark of my husband’s passing has somehow come and gone.

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Getting to the one-year mark of my husband’s passing and Christmas Eve all at one time is pretty overwhelming, I must say. Any time I have thought about describing how I’ve been feeling over the last few weeks, it really seems best summed up by the post I wrote at the six-month point–In the Middle of the Mess (All This Glory).

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Every once in a while, a Bible study question gets you so fired up that you just have to share it. (And I think that’s the way it’s supposed to be!) This past week in Beth Moore’s Children of the Day study, one of the lessons expanded on how God’s Word speaks to us personally and equips us for our calling.

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