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Death of a Parent, Faith, Grief
June 10, 2020
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The Grey Sweater

Folding the laundry gets me down sometimes. It’s a mindless activity, really. My brain runs on autopilot as it remembers the old days when laundry…

Grief, Loss
June 9, 2020
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Until I Lost My Mom, I Didn’t Know

Two months ago, I lost my mom. She was my best friend and has always been my person in life. You really can’t prepare yourself for something…

Friendship, Living, Loss
June 5, 2020
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Everyone Needs a Drop-Everything Friend

Do you need a hug/crying partner right now? I can meet you. This was the text I received from my selfless friend, as I sat in a coffee shop, five…

Baby, Grief, Loss
June 3, 2020
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God Held Us in His Arms As We Held Our Stillborn Baby in Ours

Today my daughter would have been one month old. I have been through more at 22 than most people go through in their entire lives, but I will never…

Grief, Loss, Motherhood
May 28, 2020
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Check In With Your Bereaved Mom Friends, Their Hearts Are Still Hurting

No mother should ever have to bury her child. But it happens all the time. And this week it was a family we know, making my heart heavier and taking…

Loss, Motherhood
May 27, 2020
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I Carried the One

I carried the one. The estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies that end in loss. But instead of adding to our family, something was subtracted. Lost. One day I…

Grief, Loss
May 25, 2020
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The Cemetery Fills Me With Comfort and Sorrow

It’s a beautiful day. The sun is shining with such intensity I find myself squinting. Every time I venture to my mother’s grave, the sun shines…

Loss, Motherhood
May 18, 2020
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Dear Rainbow Baby, We Love You Enough For Two

What you don’t know is the ultrasound picture on the refrigerator isn’t you. I couldn’t bring myself to take hers down, and still…

Grief, Loss
May 9, 2020
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There is No Happy in Mother’s Day For the Mom With Empty Arms

Last year in church on Mother’s Day, I watched her. The woman who I knew to have had a miscarriage a week earlier, her second one, with no…

Grief, Loss, Motherhood
May 8, 2020
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You Were Designed For More Than My Arms

Sometimes my eyes fix upon a figure with a could-be silhouette. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. A young man coming into himself. And if he has curls? Well, I…