Posts Tagged ‘doubt’
#7QT: That time I went to Lourdes and got marching orders. (Twice.)
Sometimes discernment is hard. But sometimes, God just throws up his hands and does it for you. (Twice, if necessary.)
READ MORE 🠖Oscar’s Undiagnosed Story
The saga of our as-yet fruitless search for answers, in honor of Undiagnosed Diseases Day.
READ MORE 🠖To love these days like any other
Staring into the abyss without clinging tightly to the hand of God is a dangerous game. He’s calling me back to his side now. Take my hand, dear daughter. It’s time to cling again.
READ MORE 🠖And so, we deepen
I believe now, in my bones, that God is in control and will order all these scary moments into a beautiful whole, someday.
Don’t I? I think I do. Right?
READ MORE 🠖The miracle in the pot of soup
Sometimes it’s easy to get so busy looking for the big miracle that we miss the little ones. God answered a very specific, longstanding prayer of mine in a delivery of food: a miracle in a pot of soup.
READ MORE 🠖To my brothers and sisters in the trenches
Welcome, new readers! This blog has grown a lot in the last two weeks, and I am really, really grateful that you are here, however you found your way. Many of you have chimed in with wonderful, supportive comments, and I am so glad to know that you have identified pieces of yourself in pieces…
READ MORE 🠖It is well with my soul
God has drawn beautiful goodness forth out of the rubble and ashes. He makes ALL things new, even the raggedy souls of beaten-down special needs mamas.
READ MORE 🠖What really happened in the baths at Lourdes
Awkwardness! Confusion! Doubt! Our time in the baths was the beginning of the story, not the end.
READ MORE 🠖Suffering, redemption, and standing in the gap
The darkness never wins. The suffering cannot prevail. But that does not mean the suffering is not real, that it did not happen.
READ MORE 🠖3 ways to live Lent when you are already in the desert
If you, like me, are in the desert this Lent, consider a different kind of spiritual practice for the next 40 days. Hold on to the ice cream, but work on the attitude.
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