April 2025

Hold your memories close. Treasure each one. Spend time with the people you love while you still can.

Your grief is personal. Your love is sacred. Follow your heart and grieve with grace and courage. Your heart knows the way.

This week marks Melanie’s 6th birthday in Heaven. Another birthday, another year gone by without her. Is it easier? In some ways, yes. I no longer feel the extreme heaviness of grief that I felt in the earlier years, but it’s still hard. The missing never ends and I never expect it will.

Recently, I came across a beautiful post entitled, We Are All Wounded , by @Coral Charm. Although I probably needed no reminder, it did reinforce the fact, we are all wounded in some way. Through life’s journey it’s inevitable that we will all experience some brokenness along the way. The good news is, we are also strong. We can be healed. We can rise from the brokenness and God can make beauty from the ashes. There is a line that says, “But your wounds don’t make you weak. T

When we face the loss of a loved one, a broken relationship, or another life-altering event, our world is turned upside down.