Gratitude while Grieving   In his book Tracks of a Fellow Struggler, John Claypool describes the heart-wrenching struggles of suffering, pain and death through three roads. (His daughter had a difficult battle with leukemia when God took her home to heaven).    The first one is the unquestioning resignation road.  Travelers on that road try to […]

  I wrote this a few days ago, and hope you find some encouragment from it. The past few days it has been a constant struggle to believe certain truths the Bible tells me about our God, in particular that he is a good God. I cannot deny the existence of God simply because of […]

Every day I have been waking up and feeling overwhelmed with the thought that it would be impossible for me to live my life without my mom. But as I was reading 1 Peter, this verse stood out-  1 Peter 5:10, “And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after […]

Dad read this email to us kids recently and it was so encouraging because the writer was spot on with her description of Mom.  Please read below. “Kurt, I’m currently teaching a Bible study to a group of single women at the Oldham campus (Southeast Christian).  The majority of the women are either brand new […]

A couple of days ago I was feeling so down and distressed and the enemy kept whispering lies to me. These were old lies that mom had always worked on with me. But this year satan was telling me that these lies would become true because she is not here to help me get through […]

British pastor Martin Loyd –Jones wrote that one needs to not listen to yourself, as this many times only leads to discouragement, restlessness, and even depression.  When you listen to yourself, you can easily fall into discouragement and self-pity and eventually disbelief.  Talking to yourself is a much better route- especially if you quote the […]

Just recently I started reading the amazing story90 Minutes in Heaven. In the third chapter, “Heavenly music,” the author Don Piper, attempts to describe the glories of Heaven. He says,”I get frustrated describing what heaven was like, because I can’t begin to put into words what it looked like, sounded like, and felt like. It […]

Four days ago was the one month mark since we buried Mom. With time it’s beginning to sink in that I no longer have a mom on this earth. It has been a very difficult concept for my mind to grasp. As of today I have lived 6,896 days. My Mom was apart of 6,858 […]