It was a sunny Fourth of July weekend. Red roses and navy ribbons were the ideal backdrop for my fiancé, […] The post Two funerals and a wedding: 3 principles of grief in a stepfamily appeared first on Christian Parenting.
If you’ve ever walked through an incredibly stressful season or some difficult circumstances, you may have experienced what myself and others call “survival mode.” It’s that mentality or feeling of just trying to get through it, trying to hold on, trying to survive. It happens when the demands of life...
Since being diagnosed with Lyme disease about four years ago, my body has been in a daily wrestling match with chronic pain. Some days are easier than others, but my pains are usually present to some degree. Though we have every reason to believe the Lyme is gone (praise God...
One of the hardest things after my husband died was not only dealing with my grief but also watching my children try to grapple with theirs. My youngest two kids were four and six years old. I had three coming-of-age boys (twelve, fourteen, and sixteen years old) who needed their...
