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Holiday Gift Guide: For the Grieving
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Episode 17: There Will Be Joy
Episode 17: There Will Be Joy

We talk a lot after loss about giving ourselves permission to grieve. And that’s important! But we don’t talk as much about giving ourselves permission to laugh. To sing. To feel joy, even here. So consider this permission. I’m sharing three practices I’m adopting to welcome joy into my life.

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Episode 16 - God's Promises Are Fulfilled in His Presence
Episode 16 - God's Promises Are Fulfilled in His Presence

We’ve gotten accustomed to “no contact” delivery - drop it off on the porch and avoid contact, connection, and contamination. But, while that might be a good option for our dinner, groceries, and mail, it’s a poor system for our relationship with God.

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Episode 15: When Worship Is Our Weapon
Episode 15: When Worship Is Our Weapon

It feels powerfully defiant to look suffering in the face, to stare it down, and say, “You can’t have my voice. You can’t have my praise, my affection, my song. No matter how shaky my voice gets, it won’t ever change its tune." Worship isn't always the easy choice when we're facing suffering, grief, and pain but it is a powerful weapon in this battle we're fighting - and we're never fighting alone!

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Episode 10: Even When There Are No Magic Words To Make It Stop
Episode 10: Even When There Are No Magic Words To Make It Stop

When we've tried everything - kicking, screaming, resisting, begging, pleading - and the pain still doesn't go away, we're tempted to believe that God is inactive, distant, and aloof. But what if God is more present than ever, waiting out our pain with us, and delivering us through the very trial we're in.

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Episode 9: Even When Hope Is Hard To Find
Episode 9: Even When Hope Is Hard To Find

There are some moments in life that feel so final, so unending that hope is hard to find. But it's from the darkest place that Jeremiah declared these words that bring us so much comfort today.

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Episode 6: Even When God Doesn't Seem Good
Episode 6: Even When God Doesn't Seem Good

One of the most confusing questions I get asked after our daughter died at birth is, "How can you still believe in God? How can you still believe He's good?" And I always think, "How could I not?" I'm not sure what it gains me to give up on God, but I am sure that He has the words of eternal life. We're committed, we've made up our minds, we're confident in who He is. In this episode, we explore how God's character and track record are more than enough to convince me of his goodness.

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Episode 5: Even If It Feels Conditional
Episode 5: Even If It Feels Conditional

When it comes to God’s goodness, our language matters. The words we use build the theology we live in, and we want it to stand the test of life’s shifting circumstances.

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Episode 4: Even After God Says No
Episode 4: Even After God Says No

When your prayers for healing haven’t been answered, when you’ve waited longer than you should have for a husband or a child, when your marriage ends in divorce or when God simply says no, your prayer life becomes a battleground where it’s hard to continue to fight. How do we continue to offer God our prayers when the answer is never yes? Or when it wasn’t yes when it mattered the most?

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Episode 3: Even When You're Robbed
Episode 3: Even When You're Robbed

Sometimes the loss is so great that we’re left feeling violated and robbed. But even here, our pain can become our greatest offering, an act of true worship and surrender.

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4 Months. It’s been four months since Imogen was born, since we held her, since we saw her sweet face. Four months since we kissed her cheeks and held her hands and counted her fingers and toes. Four months since we said hello and then goodbye,
The first installment in a new series I like to call: And you thought I was handling this well.

Cleared the dishes, took them to the kitchen, wiped the table down, and ate my meal. Didn’t enjoy a single bite, but I sat where I wanted. #andyout
A funny thing happens when you have nothing left to offer God. When you’ve surrendered the things most important, when you’re broken and empty and there’s nothing else to give.

He gives you the very offering you present back to him
One of the commitments I’ve made in this season is to pray for others to get the miracle that we didn’t.

If I’m honest, that’s really hard. Because if they get it, I have to wrestle with why God said “yes” to them