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Why You Might Have to "Forgive" God
I no longer feel betrayed.
I still don’t like this life.
I would never have chosen this life.
But I will trust the One Who made me to carry me through it.

Melanie
Aug 222 min read


Grace to See the Light
I'm so thankful that when the darkness is all I can see, the Lord brings people (and His own precious Presence) to remind me that light still exists.

Melanie
May 141 min read


Jealousy-Reaching for What I Cannot Have
Jealousy is a green-eyed monster and I want no part of it. I have to focus on the gift and not the loss. I can't always do that.

Melanie
Apr 211 min read


Season of Sorrow: Fragments
that’s what child loss does to a mama’s heart. It shatters it into pieces so tiny and so fragile. And the pieces never make a whole.

Melanie
Apr 92 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Grieving With Hope
I lean into the Word of God and trust in, rely on and affirm the victory of Jesus Christ.
But I still GRIEVE.

Melanie
Mar 245 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: NOTHING Can Separate Us From the Love of Christ
On my hardest days, my darkest days I remember this: as fierce as my mother love may be, it can’t hold a candle to the eternal love of God.

Melanie
Mar 213 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Glorious Finale
God is for us. REALLY for us.
So who can be against us?
No one.

Melanie
Mar 193 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Not Everything IS Good
All those things that are outside the perfect will of God-the pain, the heartache-aren’t outside His power of redemption.

Melanie
Mar 174 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: I'm Not the Only One Waiting
At the moment of my weakness, the Spirit speaks courage to my spirit. Jesus whispers, “You can do it” to my heart.

Melanie
Mar 143 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: Keep Me Near
If I can only praise a God who spares me, I have no songs to sing. But if I can praise the God who loves me then I can always rejoice.

Melanie
Feb 244 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: My Good Shepherd
Know that the Lord God loves you.
He LOVES you.
He loves YOU.

Melanie
Feb 213 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: A Living Hope
Your story matters.
It’s being written to be shared as a testimony to God’s goodness, His faithful love and His enabling grace.

Melanie
Feb 104 min read


Grief Scripture Challenge: Worn Out and Weary? Jesus Understands.
Jesus promises that the burden He asks us to bear He will make bearable when we bring it to Him.

Melanie
Feb 73 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
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