There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.

Life isn’t about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable

I began praying for the health and safety of my boys before each one was born. Once a week for two years prior to Joseph’s death, I also gathered with other moms to pray for...

Remember that a fresh breath of life follows every sigh of exasperation. Breathe in, breathe out, and ENJOY every moment. It is how everything begins and ends. – Charmainism

Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that mystery and trust Him in the dark.

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.

I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on my son’s floor and tried to drink in his scent, to savor the essence of my sweet boy. I inhaled it long and hard,...

Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness?

She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears, she knew that’s exactly what she would do until the war was over...

My experience is that God will meet us anywhere. Grieving badly and under the covers? He’s there. Sitting at the cemetery, wishing it were you? You’re not alone. Sitting on your child’s bedroom floor still...

Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do we do with the memory – or in the memory – of the...

Never compare your grief.You – and only youwalk your path.

I was ‘led’ to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance’, Marina DeAngelo in July of 2012. It helped me as it has millions of people...

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don’t let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender,...

There came a moment in this journey when I freely realized that the lives most of lead are small. Important, but small. Our radius reaches family, clients, friends for whom we do selfless and amazing...

Love has no gender.

It is a divine gift to find the light inside while in the midst of despair.

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Love can’t be limited

Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation.I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some years. I am not the same young girl they knew in high school. What...

Perhaps … To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel one more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of you.Perhaps the golden meadows...

My gender ceased to exist inside me whenever I sing my feelings; soul has no gender.

In order to heal, you have to first be broken.

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

Tears of missing you raced down my cheeks; please don’t go, your arms are my tears of joy

I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister’s and my own, and,...

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.