What kind of help do you need today?
Do you have a comprehensive list of hope-filled resources?
When loss feels heavy, you don’t have to search alone for encouragement.
This free booklet gathers some of my most hope-filled reflections to help point your heart back to comfort, truth, and the God of all hope.
Click HERE To Get Your Free Booklet.
What music and worship songs might help?
→ The Healing Power of Worship: Finding Peace in Times of Grief
→ A Special Playlist to Fight Loneliness
→ Need Hope That Things Will Get Better?
→ Jenny and Caleb’s Top Songs Since the Accident
→ Looking for Uplifting Songs of Hope?
→ The Song You Need to Hear Today
→ Friday Was Only Good Because Sunday Is Coming
What can help with guilt, fear, anger, loneliness, anxiety, prayer, or family conflict?
When Grief Affects Your Family
→ Understanding Grief in Families: Navigating Different Perspectives
When Your Thoughts and Emotions Feel Overwhelming
→ Who’s Winning the Battle for Your Mind?
→ Practical Tips to Deal with Guilt After Tragedy
→ Five Faith-Based Tips for Overcoming Loneliness in Grief
→ How to Overcome Fear When You Feel Anxious
→ Forgiveness and Grief: Letting Go of Anger and Bitterness
→ Three Simple Keys to Take Back Your Mind
→ Understanding Grief: Navigating Emotions and Finding Peace
When Faith Feels Difficult
→ Hope and Healing in Scripture
→ Do You Find It Hard to Pray in Grief?
→ Finding Faith When You’re Angry at God
→ Bible Verses for Grief and Anxiety
→ From Grief to Gratitude: How Faith Can Lead You Toward Healing
My Letter To You 🩵
Seven years ago today, my son Jacob died. How do you go on? How do you process that and keep living? How do you still have faith?
Click HERE to read Heaven Day: The Day My Son Went to Heaven.
How can I support someone else who is grieving?
Do you have anything specifically for grieving siblings?
Download your free coloring pages here.
Book Recommendations
Trusting God
Have you ever faced challenges that required unwavering trust in God? Join us as thirty-one incredible women share their stories of faith, hope, and resilience in our latest eBook.
Description:
In the midst of life’s twists and turns, these devotions will inspire you to trust God in every circumstance. Whether it’s navigating family challenges, overcoming loneliness, or making tough choices, our sisters have experienced it all. Each devotion includes a purpose-filled statement, a practical thought for building trust, a heartfelt prayer, and a powerful promise from God’s Word.
Why You Should Grab Your Copy:
- Find solace and encouragement in the shared experiences of thirty-one remarkable women.
- Discover practical insights to strengthen your trust in God.
- Immerse yourself in daily devotions that align with your journey of faith.
- Experience the transformative power of God’s promises in your life.
Get Your Copy Here: Trusting God Devotional
And then be sure to let me know what you think! I’d love to connect with you on this journey!
Jenny
Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love
Helpful (and Hopeful) Devotional for Anyone Grieving a Loss
Book review of Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love: Daily Meditations to Help You Through the Grieving Process by Raymond R Mitch and Lynn Brookside.
After suffering shattering loss, I received this little, but powerful book from a dear friend.
I’ve recommended this gem so many times that I buy extra copies to give out when a friend or loved one experiences a loss. It may be small, but it packs a powerful punch, broken up into short daily readings. It deals with practical issues from a biblical perspective. My copy is highlighted and dog geared and shows lots of wear and tear. The authors have experienced a loss that cuts deep, but have also experienced the comfort that God provided during their journey through the grieving process to the other side. There are 70 short meditations that I used as a companion devotional in my morning devotion time. To be honest with you, it took me longer than 70 days to go through it because I some days I just wasn’t up to facing the heartache that might surface though I’d experienced the healing that can come when a wound is addressed as it should be, some days I just couldn’t ‘rip the band-aid off’. So, instead, I just took my time, pacing myself, and letting the messages dig deep inside to help the hurting, wounded areas.If your world has been rocked by the death of a close friend or loved one, I highly recommend this little book.
Get your copy of Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love here (affiliate link).
Man's Search for Meaning
Book Review of Man’s Search for Meaning
“…An optimism in the face of tragedy and in the view of the human potential which at its best always allows for:
- Turning suffering into a human achievement and accomplishment
- Deriving from guilt the opportunity to change oneself for the better
- Deriving from life’s transitoriness an incentive to take responsible action.”
From Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor e. Frankel (emphasis mine)
This book is a hard read on many levels: it’s written by a holocaust survivor who doesn’t shy away from hard realities. It has entire sections where Frankl discusses scientific ideas that are way above my pay grade, but he was a doctor before and after the war, so he knows what he’s talking about. All in all, though, it was worth the time to read–there were many times I had to set it aside and ponder what he wrote for a while before reading more.
Later in that same book Frankel asked the question, “How does a human being go about finding meaning? As Charlotte Buhler has stated, “All we can do is study the lives of people who seem to have found their answers to the questions of what ultimately human life is about as against those who have not.”
Our family doesn’t have all the answers, my friend. But we have been on this journey for a while and want to share with you what we’ve learned. We really do want to know how we can help you.
What questions do you have that keep you up at night? That plague your thoughts during the day? I think you just might be surprised to know you’re not the only one.
Reach out to us and we’ll see what we can do to help you find some answers.
There is meaning in this life and it can be found!
Get your copy of Man’s Search for Meaning here (affiliate link).
The Case for Hope
How do you move forward when life is shattered? When your world is turned upside down and you don’t know how to make sense of it all?
This book was one tool that helped me reset the anchor in my own life during the most brutal season I’ve ever gone through–the months following the loss of our son and the upheaval in our lives with our other son’s long road to recovery.
Lee Strobel is a former investigative reporter who has done extensive research on various subjects and published numerous books to encourage the body of Christ that you don’t have to chuck your brain at the church’s threshold to believe in God. There is plenty of evidence to prove that he is who He says He is and that His word has answers.
This book, “The Case for Hope: Looking Ahead with Confidence and Courage”, guides us back to Scripture for hope in dark days.
I highly recommend it. I know my copy is dog-eared, highlighted, and shared with fellow hope seekers. If you have a chance, I encourage you to check it out and let it encourage you that life can be good again! And that one day, everything will be made new, and all wrongs will be made right.
Get your copy of The Case for Hope here (affiliate link).
Trusted Resources
A Christian Resource for Widows
Why C. S. Lewis’s Books Still Resonate Today
Why The Grief Guidebook Can Help on Hard Days
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