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.
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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.
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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
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage —pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. Stephen R. Covey About 4 years ago I went to a Time Out for women. I remember listening to a
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s
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
We sang while making dinner the other day. And I missed you. But it wasn’t the aching, lump in my throat missing you that I usually feel when a wave of missing you comes on…. It was just missing you, because I know you would have been singing right along with us and having a
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
I remember a few years ago Brad’s brothers family was in town and I walked outside to Uncle Lance teaching Sophie how to ride her bike… running up and down the sidewalk with her and she was having a blast. It kindof took my breath away to see it because it was like seeing the
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