Imelda was a cold and calculating woman. Everyone pitied her husband, Henry who was a quiet and unassuming man. So, when he suddenly took ill and died shortly after they married and Imelda put on a grand histrionic display of grief at his funeral, mourners became very suspicious. 48 Words This was written for …
It’s Not the Same
When you're comforting someone, do you say, "I know how you feel"? I recently realized that a person really doesn't know how another person feels when my sister told me of the sad story of a mother whose two sons were among the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which crashed and burned in …
A Free Man
So if the Son makes you free, then you will be truly free - John 8:36 I didn't think that anybody cared about me. Why should they? I was a lowlife. I ran with the wrong crowd. Got into trouble all of the time. Gave my poor Mama a lot of grief. My Dad left …
Losing and Finding Love
I was cleaning out my desk when I came across a picture of Susanna. I stared it for a moment. She was easily the most beautiful woman I had ever known. When we met ten years ago in Aspen, it was love at first sight for me. Her beautiful, angelic face was framed by long, …
Grief
"The Lord's loved ones are precious to him; it grieves him when they die" - Psalm 116:15 When I read this, I thought about Jesus. He was a close friend to a man named Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary. One day Jesus received an urgent message from the two sisters telling Him that …
Comforted and Comforting
“The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now” ― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward Elizabeth Prentiss, née Elizabeth Payson, daughter of an American Congregational preacher, Edward Payson, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the religious novel Stepping Heavenward was deeply impacted by …
God Lifted Me Up
I waited patiently for the Lord to help me,and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to …
The Young Widow
I knelt in the cemetery, my heart heavy with grief and sorrow. My beloved had departed a fortnight ago, leaving me inconsolable. Tears streamed down my face as I lifted my gaze heavenward and asked the Lord why He’d seen it fit to rob me of my happiness. Why had He taken my Edgar away …
Cause of Death
He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces - Isaiah 25:8 Less than a month after our son died, we found out that the cause of death was a "sudden acute severe Asthma attack." The attack was so sudden that nothing could have prevented …
Cade/Untrodden #writephoto
Cade lived on his own in a condo in the heart of downtown Toronto. This wasn't always the case, though. He was married once and had a daughter but one day tragedy struck. While he was out trapping lines, his wife and their eleven month old daughter had just returned from a walk when they …
Notes to Women 