Faith & Hope in Suffering
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Nicole Aldrian, a beloved woman who inspired, loved, and served many (whom I wrote about last week), died yesterday, May 12, 2014, from cancer. I am absolutely devastated.
The day we met Steve and Nicole Aldrian in 2009, they were pulling baby Trevor around in a…
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A poem for my Juddy this Mother’s Day:
I never thought I’d have the gift
Of being called a mother,
Then one day you came to be
And changed me like no other.
I beamed with delight and cried with joy;
You were cherished from the start.
The moment that our eyes had met…
“It’s too much, God! It’s just too much! Why would you allow so much suffering to ravage one family?!” These guttural cries arose from my little brown couch in my living room last night.
But this pain has nothing to do with me…other than trying to understand…
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Five long years. For more than five long years, I consistently prayed for God to intervene in a personal situation, unrelated to Judson, which impacted my daily life in some difficult ways. I felt the strains and stresses of the situation and begged God to alter the circumstances. This plight even arose on the heels
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Today is my last day living in my 30’s. Tomorrow is my big 4-0! This milestone has left me reflecting a great deal on the last ten years of my life. When I was turning 30, Drake and I had been married 8 years. We didn’t have children (and didn’t even think we could have
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There is a gentleman who lives in our area that I regularly see out walking the neighborhood. He always catches my eye. Using a quad cane, he ever-so-slowly takes one very small step after another, inching along with purpose and determination. He appears to be a victim of a stroke, half his body paralyzed, but
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