grief
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Solo Roadtrip!

I am in love. 🥰 Learning to love the life we have can be challenging. Life often sends things our way that we never wanted or asked for. And that can leave us feeling slighted, bitter, in denial, or even angry. Life isn’t fair. But feeling God’s presence makes the impossible possible. Having a support Continue reading
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Embracing the “Both/ And”

Happy. Sad. Fabulous. Anxious. Grieved. Excited. Lonely. Terrific. Devastated. Calm. Discouraged. Joyful. Blah. We might choose any one of these or other words to describe how we are feeling on any given day. My younger self would have only thought to pick one. My less-younger self had started to realize that I could feel more Continue reading
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Three Years…

Some pivotal or traumatic events become a blur in our memories, or we even end up with gaps and holes in our memories surrounding that event. Other times that pivotal or traumatic event is seared into our memories in explicit detail. Time slows down, details typically overlooked are now glaring and bold. For me, December Continue reading
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When the World Stops… and Yet Doesn’t
I’m sitting in the bleachers of my kids’ high school. We are enjoying the Friendship Tournament, a friendly round of games between our area Adventist elementary schools. Soon my son’s team will be playing. I am surrounded by noise and laughter and cheering and clapping and shouting and smiles and so much fun. High school Continue reading
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Tears
Divorce was never on my list of dreams. Being a single mom, well, I always tried to feel empathy for them but I knew it was not something I’d ever have to experience. Or so I thought. Not having that one other person in your life, every day, to care about the mundane and the Continue reading
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