Guide to Renewal

I am a parent. I have lost a parent. I have children. I have lost children.   Sorrow is not an unfamiliar emotion in my life.  Grief and trauma  have been woven into the story of my family  quite frequently during the last decade.  Yet, so has joy.   In Ecclesiastes 3, we read that…

No one wants to be fluent  in the language of grief.  No one wants to grow familiar  with the valley of death.    Yet, for some of us,  this is the land in which we dwell  and the words that we utter.    This has been a hard season.    For some of us,  what started…