Faith & Hope in Suffering
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I feel a little lost today. Lost in my grief. It’s raining. Raining so hard that I think we won’t be able to decorate your grave for the first time in 14 years. This makes me sad. And it leaves me a little lost. It’s the simple way we’ve come to celebrate you on your birthday…
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If you could return to any year of your life and relive it, what year would you choose?
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…something profound happened in that moment. It was as though our Jud Bud became starkly aware of his own increasing deficits while simultaneously celebrating with us the victories of his little sister’s movement…
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Enveloped in the dust,
A tiny little seed,
Sown in love…
On Christmas day we received a photo and a message from a woman in Indianapolis, Indiana who unbeknownst to us had received a balloon in her backyard with information about Judson and Judson’s Legacy. She then proceeded to visit our website and wrote, “Whoever did this made my day. I feel really lucky to have
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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…
Where does one find safety and healing in their brokenness, hurt, doubts and struggles? God designed the Church to be that place—a place where our wounds are bound up in love, a place where light floods the darkness, where our haunting shadows are rendered impotent, no longer able to permeate and destroy our lives. But
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I’m living in the middle. Time has gently moved me away From the intensely jagged edges Experienced at the beginning. Time also sweetly moves me toward The realization of glory To be experienced at the end. But I’m living in the middle. Distant from the outer limits Yet stretched by the longing of both extremes.
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