created to thrive
Three months. Your shoes, your coat, your hat, are not hanging in your mudroom anymore. Your car is not in your driveway, your closet is cleaned out. Your office is being rearranged, your drawers are emptied – but somehow you are still here. Your hat and jacket hang at my place now and I wouldn’t […]
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My dad moved to heaven on February 18, 2019. On February 20 my mom came down from upstairs with a journal in her hand and something she wanted to share with us kids. She said she woke up early that morning and felt like she was standing on the edge of a precipice. She was […]
Continue ReadingOne Month. Oh Daddy. Oh Daddy I miss you. One month closer to seeing you again. I have to admit, I’m not always as strong as I have hoped I would be. One day I know I will be okay. I know I can do this, Dad. I know I can run my race well, […]
Continue ReadingSoul-sucking. That is the way that comes to mind to describe it. Soul-sucking loss that feels unbearable. Like being in active labor where there is no going back but you don’t know when you will give birth or, at times, if it will ever be over. And yet even here, there is a choice. “This […]
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