by Kelly Denham | May 15, 2024 | Grief, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Mending Broken Hearts Mending broken hearts is all too familiar to guest blogger Kelly Denham. She and her husband’s hearts are still mending after a medical mistake left their son TJ irrevocably injured and later resulted in the decision she wrote about in today’s...
by Jolene | Dec 27, 2023 | Grief, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
I Didn’t Want to Learn Hard Caregiving Lessons, but Now I’m Grateful I didn’t want to learn hard caregiving lessons in 2023. Mainly because I’m a big fan of easy. Hard? Not so much. Yet here I am waiting for 2023 to end—believe me, I’m ready to put it behind me—and at...
by Jolene | Nov 27, 2023 | Encouragement, Grief, Spiritual Support
Practicing Gratitude in Hard Seasons Practicing gratitude in hard seasons can be, well, hard. That less-than-astounding conclusion seems obvious, but I don’t think about such things when life is good. Only when challenges slap me upside the head do I return to...
by Jolene | Nov 8, 2023 | Encouragement, Grief, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Every Season Has Its Challenges and Joys Every season has its challenges and joys. God has been injecting that truth into my heart with particular intensity this week. I wish he would stop. He began this exercise in my character development with a pain in my left side...
by Jolene | Sep 25, 2023 | Grief, Special Needs Parenting
Caregivers Can Do Hard Things Caregivers can do hard things. In the nearly sixty-seven years my mother and I shared on this earth, she taught me many lessons. The one I leaned on the most as our time to say good-bye drew near was this one. Caregivers can do hard...
by Kelly Simpson | Sep 20, 2023 | Encouragement, Grief, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Why Did this Happen to My Child? “Why did this happen to my child?” is one of the first questions that comes to mind when hard things happen to our kids. Guest blogger Kelly Simpson explains what she has learned from posing that question as the parent of a child with...