Today Brad would be 46. We will celebrate his life today. And how grateful we are that we got to share it with him. Some days are harder than others… some we know will be hard, and some catch us off guard and knock us off our feet. My hope for today is that it …
This quote comes from one of my most favorite and comforting scriptures ever. Isaiah 61 – This little painting is one of my new favorites. I’m keeping her. She’s going in my room. Isaiah is speaking about some of the things Christ will do. “he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim …
Love Always Wins {my widow anthem} Something in her eyes told you she had known unimaginable loss… but those eyes also told you she has known unimaginable love. Overwhelmingly beautiful, empowering love. and love is bigger than loss. LOVE Always WINS. always I wrote these words sometime in the first year after Brad died. …
THANK YOU!!! Thank you for spreading the word about Operation Serve to Heal. Thank you for joining in. Thank you for your kind words on social media and for your love and support. I wanted to give people the option of joining us on this day for a few reasons. First, I wanted my little …
Join us May 1st for Operation Serve To Heal May 1st will mark 7 years since losing Brad. Last year we added some small acts of service to what we normally do on this day {you can read more about that here}We found that something special happened when we focused on serving others instead of focusing on …
May 1st is the day we lost Brad. Needless to say, it is my least favorite day. This year I wanted to be a little more prepared. I can always feel it coming and I struggle for weeks before. This year was a little different. Tyler had been out on her mission about 6 weeks. …
On It’s Own Today marks 5 1/2 years since Brad’s death. It’s interesting how the passage of time changes things. {and how it doesn’t} I remember having a physical “flinch” on every 1st of every month. Another month without Brad. I was always counting. Hours, days, months. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that I’m counting …
Today marks five years since Brad’s death. That is crazy to me. Five years sounds like a long time. And it’s weird because it seems like a lifetime ago and also just yesterday all at the same time. I remember very vividly walking in my bed room to get Addie who was six months old …
After Brad died I used to have the most horrible, crushingly sad dream. In the dream I had just lost Brad again. Throughout the whole dream I was running all over looking for him and I could never find him. People I would pass would say, “he just went that way.” “he just …
Widow. When I realized that at age 33, that title applied to me – it made me physically sick. I completely rejected that word and everything that it stood for. I never refer to myself as a widow. (it’s ironic that my blog has this word in the title. – really I’ve always …