Guest Post: My Heartbreak to Strength Story
How To Persevere in Faith When You Don’t Get the Miracle
During a church worship service, we watched a video that told a remarkable story. A pregnant couple learned horrible news at their first ultrasound: their baby appeared to have severe deformities. Specialists in nearby Philadelphia…
How Worshipping Together in a Holy Space Brought Healing
An excerpt from Chapter 18: He Sings to Me in Angie’s book: A Mother Like Me: A Story of Faith, Hope, and Love in Loss. “The LORD your God . . . will rejoice over…
God’s heart is to rescue, redeem, and restore you!
We sat cross-legged in the woods behind my neighbor’s house, leaves crunching beneath us. There, I spilled all the gory details. As a seven-year-old, I didn’t know it was called abuse. I just knew I…
How A Decade of Infertility Transformed Into A Powerful Testimony of Faith & Hope
For years, my husband and I dreamed of building a loving, vibrant family. As time passed, we were confronted with the heart-wrenching reality that starting a family was not as simple as we once envisioned….
Choosing Forgiveness When Your Heart Breaks Due to Friendship Loss
There is a saying many of us have heard that goes like this… “Some friends are in your life for a season, some for a lifetime.” If we have the privilege to have a real…
Important Lessons Learned About Heartbreak and Healing
Sometimes in life, we end up in seasons where we need healing. I’m in one right now. I didn’t want to be and didn’t see it coming. But isn’t that how most seasons of healing…
God’s Strength in the Face of Heartbreak
Tragedy is not usually in our thoughts, because it should be far away where we cannot see it in someone else’s life. When it happens to you and your family, it continues to feel that…
You Are Never Alone: Encountering the Unconditional Love of God
It was a blistering hot Sunday and it just happened to be my birthday. It was 10:30 a.m. and I had just arrived for the start of church. I was happy to be there to…
How to Persevere When Dementia Feels Like a Long Goodbye
I first started to notice something changing right about the time I got married. At the time, I figured it was a change in the relationship due to the fact that I had gotten married….