Embracing Grace Grief Support Group

09/02/2026

You can laugh, talk, and play your part beautifully, and still be carrying something no one sees.
That contradiction doesn't make you dishonest — it makes you human, doing your best to function.
The missing doesn't shrink just because you learned to smile through it.
It's okay to let someone see the crack today, if you need to.

Who are you loving from a distance today? Say their name below. 🤍

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

Don't allow the pain you're carrying today to convince you that tomorrow has nothing new to offer.

Because with God, tomorrow is always held by the One who specializes in redemption.

09/02/2026

Good Morning “Embracing Grace” friends.

About a year ago I felt the Holy Spirit impressing that our Embracing Grace Grief Support Group do a study on the book of Lamentations. It is still brought up in conversation from time to time, with those who were there to do the study, fully agreeing that we do not want to do that again any time soon, with laughter quickly following ❤️🌻🦋.

Eventhough, at the time and even now, it didn’t seem like a “special” shared moment, it has become that. In all the darkness of our grieving, right smack dab in the middle of it, we found a reminder that hope is NOT lost...

We are set FREE... for Jesus said in John 8:31–32 that people who abide in his word are his disciples and would know the truth “and the truth will set you free.” How does the truth set us free? The freedom comes from the truth of redemption and the forgiveness Christians experience. The freedom comes from the knowledge that we have “another comforter,” the Holy Spirit, as our companion and guide. The freedom also comes from the true promises Jesus made which we can “hang our hats on” and in which we can trust. It is truth about sin, meaning, hope, and eternal life. But it is also a freedom that comes from staring “our demons” in the eyes, identifying the dark without running from it, and allowing the truth of our brokenness and the world’s brokenness to be accepted and absorbed as definitive in a Christian worldview.

In Ephesians 2:1–3, Paul references three areas as the sources of the darkness we all experience—the world, the flesh, and the devil. That is the darkness to which we don’t want to go, but must go to get free.

Remember, when Jesus bids us go there (and he does), he goes with us. Not only that, Jesus gives us permission to experience the darkness and to cry the tears. It’s called lament and, believe it or not, that lament is healing and healthy. So, don’t run from it, or try to cover it up with crazy spirituality ( making it something it isn’t), but find out how to deal with it.

What isn’t healing and healthy is pretending the world is a garden where we “walk through the flowers with Jesus.”

“It is of the LORD 's mercies that we are not consumed, Because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; Therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, To the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly Wait for the salvation of the LORD.” Lamentations‬ ‭3:22-26‬
❤️🌻🦋‭

09/02/2026

September Grief Affirmation 🧡

Say it with me. 💛

09/02/2026

True...

09/02/2026

Morning used to mean another day with you.

Now it means opening my eyes and remembering, all over again, that I have entered another day you will never know. ❤️‍🩹

There are so many ordinary hours ahead of me—meals you won't sit down to, little stories I won't get to tell you, changes you won't see, evenings that will arrive without your footsteps coming through the door.

And yet my heart hasn't learned to stop expecting you.

It still leaves a place for you in the day. It still notices the empty hook, the untouched shoes, the quiet doorway. It still behaves, in a hundred unconscious ways, as though you might come home.

Maybe love doesn't understand absence the way the mind does.

Maybe that is why part of me is always making room for you. 🩵🕊️

What part of the day makes their absence feel the most real?

09/02/2026

There are memories I visit on purpose, and then there are the ones that seem to have memorized me.

They know exactly when to appear.

In the middle of an ordinary thought. In the space between waking and sleep. In a moment when I almost forget how different my life became.

And suddenly, there you are—not as a picture of who you were, but as a feeling my body still recognizes. 💙

Maybe love leaves its own pulse behind. Something the calendar cannot count and absence cannot silence.

Because after all this time, my heart still knows you by heart. ❤️‍🩹🕊️

08/27/2026

I will go on through life sharing my child’s memories forever…