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Grief Scripture Challenge: In The Very Presence of God
I can say with certainty that I am more sure now than I was before that God is God.
He is good.
He will redeem, restore and resurrect.

Melanie
Mar 54 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Perfect Peace
Because I am His child. when I’m hurting, God does not run away or turn a blind eye or a deaf ear-He meets me there.

Melanie
Mar 33 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: The God Who Comes Near
Because I am His child. when I’m hurting, God does not run away or turn a blind eye or a deaf ear-He meets me there.

Melanie
Feb 282 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: God Sees You. You Are Not Alone.
I am so, so thankful that the God I serve loves me.
He specifically, purposefully loves me with unconditional love.

Melanie
Feb 193 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Suffering and Safe Places
God has put my foot on a solid Rock.
When sorrow threatens to drag me deeper than my heart can bear, He reaches down and pulls me up.

Melanie
Feb 175 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: My Righteous, Raging King!
God IS love. Scripture says so.
But God is also a fierce Father who will protect His children.

Melanie
Feb 143 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: The One I Run To
I have never felt so desolate as the early morning when I was told my son was dead. I knew if I didn’t remind my heart of truth, I’d be lost

Melanie
Feb 123 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: When I Can't Trace His Hand, I Trust His Heart.
God does not always intervene.
But He always comes alongside.
He always offers comfort and promises that grief doesn’t last forever.

Melanie
Feb 53 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Can't Heal
This life of travail won’t last forever either.
By death or transformation, we will be freed from this earthly tent.

Melanie
Feb 34 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: My Bridegroom is Coming to Get Me!
Jesus is the great Bridegroom and the church His Bride. Those of us who love Him, follow Him and wait for Him will not be disappointed!

Melanie
Jan 293 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Life often devastating filled with circumstances.
That’s the bad news.
But we don’t have to face them alone.
That’s the good news.

Melanie
Jan 275 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Safe in My Daddy's Arms
My Heavenly Father's love is strong enough to hold me fast no matter what perils I face.

Melanie
Jan 243 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: When My Heart Needs a Reminder
My heart can forget the truth when life falls apart. It's then I must remind it that God is faithful and His love endures forever.

Melanie
Jan 225 min read


Countdown to Christmas
I walk in two worlds–on earth and in heaven. I savor the sweet joy of the “now” but ache for the even sweeter joy of the “forever”.

Melanie
Dec 20, 20242 min read


Trust After Loss: Appropriate God’s Strength
Christ came for the broken. It’s the broken and breathless who long for the Spirit to blow life across their wounded hearts.

Melanie
Sep 23, 20245 min read


Trust After Loss: Acknowledge Doubt and Ask Questions
When I swallow my doubts instead of speaking them all I do is poison my own heart.
Lament is a biblical response to deep pain.

Melanie
Sep 18, 20243 min read


Trust After Loss: Admit the Pain
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains."
~C.S. Lewis

Melanie
Sep 16, 20243 min read


The Opposite of Faith Isn't Doubt
Doubt is not denial. If someone is asking questions, they are still seeking. Jesus invited honest questions.

Melanie
Sep 11, 20244 min read


Grief Is Not a Hammer in the Hand of God
I may risk offending some of my fellow believers in Jesus but I will take that risk. While scripture is plain that God uses the events in...

Melanie
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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