God's Grace and Life's Challenges

Making a Plan for Surviving Mother’s Day Without Mom

Originally posted on God's Grace and Life's Challenges:
Mother’s Day stirs up so many kinds of emotions. I wrote this a few years ago.…

It’s been a week! The week I found out the carcinoid tumor I had removed has metastasized to my liver.

The streets in our neighborhood are eerily quiet tonight. They have been since around seven, when the curfew started for

I’m surprised how much joy the broken rose brought me. My husband, Jeff, had brought home a dozen pink (my

Yesterday Facebook reminded me of what I was doing this time last year… I was going into the hospital three

Since I’m no longer a caregiver, I’ve found I’ve had less to share about Alzheimer’s. I still care deeply for

My five year old granddaughter climbed up on my lap a few weeks ago and I’m still thinking about the

(Author’s note: This is not a story about Alzheimer’s. But it is a story overflowing with God’s grace…) November 29th

I woke up this morning thinking about the election and feeling trepidation about it all. And then almost immediately one

Sometimes I read old posts and I’m impacted again by the lesson God was teaching me through Mom and the