Welcome to the eighteenth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Spirituality. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Strength. While brainstorming today’s blog post, I looked out at the bird-feeders in my front garden. Immediately the words came… [Read More]
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Learning How to Live with Grief
Welcome to the twelfth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Challenges. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Respect. Grief is a learning process. It’s been 4 1/2 years since my mom died. I still think about… [Read More]
Grief is Weird: I Still Mourn People I Barely Knew
Welcome to the fifteenth day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Heartache. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Strength. Last week, for the first time in four years of hosting the Love Blog Challenge, I didn’t have a blog… [Read More]
When Forgiveness is Abused
Welcome to the eleventh day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Forgiveness. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Compromise. Earlier this month I wrote a post on boundaries. I shared a few personal–but vague–stories of relatives who have violated… [Read More]
4 Ways to Connect to Your Faith Daily in the New Year
Have you set a New Year’s resolution to reconnect with your faith this year? This guest post from Ginger Tarkowski will help! Ginger is a wife and busy mom of two daughters who are her whole world. She enjoys spending time with her family as much as possible and loves to be outdoors. I hope her… [Read More]
How to Help a Grieving Friend
Welcome to the twelfth day of the 2018 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Challenges. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Tradition. It’s been 2 1/2 years since my mother died. I’m still grieving, and I don’t think I’ll ever stop. Time… [Read More]