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  • Seek Peace and Pursue It

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    Rebecca would have been 25 today. Although we have never been able to be with our daughter for any of her birthdays, we still celebrate her quick and powerful life each year. We cook a fish dinner and give our other children gifts as we recall God’s faithfulness to us through all these years. Every…

  • Easter Changes our Difficult Realities

    Easter Changes our Difficult Realities

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    Imagine how the friends of Jesus felt after His crucifixion. They were so sure He was the Messiah, the One sent to become their king and free them from Rome. He called Himself the Way, the Truth and the Life, yet the reality was, He just suffered a brutal death! Faith: the substance of things hoped…

  • How Grief Taught me Joy

    How Grief Taught me Joy

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    Today would have been my baby girl’s twentieth birthday. With each year since her passing, we think of all the milestones she would have accomplished had we been granted the privilege of raising her into adulthood like our other children.  It’s hard to imagine Rebecca  as anything except a beautiful, delicate newborn.  Her fifth birthday…

  • Easter Changes Everything

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    Imagine how the friends of Jesus felt after His crucifixion. They were so sure He was the Messiah, the One sent to become their king and free them from Rome. He called Himself the Way, the Truth and the Life, yet the reality was, He just suffered a brutal death! Faith: the substance of things hoped…

  • When Looking Good is the Last Concern

    When Looking Good is the Last Concern

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    If you ever want to find out if you have Image Issues, go skiing in extremely cold conditions and see if you care how you look. Last weekend’s fierce winds brought the wind-chill factor down to a negative twenty-five degrees, but that didn’t take into account the wet snow on my exposed cheeks. It was…

  • Finding Purpose in Pain

    Finding Purpose in Pain

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    I had just laid my newborn baby down to rest and knew I should close my eyes until she needed me again, but I couldn’t resist the overwhelming urge to write the thoughts that were running through my head. It was strange, the words I was hearing were directed to me, not from me. It was  as…

  • Finding Peace in Tragedy at Christmas

    Finding Peace in Tragedy at Christmas

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    Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”   When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them…

  • Acting Out Life’s Drama with Confident Faith

    Acting Out Life’s Drama with Confident Faith

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    Whenever we face a personal crisis, it will become a public matter. The bigger the crisis, the broader the audience of eyes watching our drama. This is part of living in a news-driven, gossip-seeking society. It’s also part of being human. When I was going through my divorce, I hated this fact of life. It…

  • The Beauty of Easter

    The Beauty of Easter

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    If you have ever had one, you know how all-consuming the pain can be. There are few things that can stop a woman in her tracks like a full-blown migraine. Of course, there are plenty of things that are all-consuming and do slow us down a lot. Like broken relationships, fear, rejection and the big…

  • God is Bigger than the challenges we Face

    God is Bigger than the challenges we Face

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    In memory of our Trisomy 18 baby, I offer the words God spoke to me one night before she died in 1999. May these words be an encouragement to you and your’s during whatever trial you face. God’s Comfort to Our Family and Friends  by Catrina Welch This child is my gift to you, like a…

  • How to Dress for Tragedies, Trials and Temptations

    How to Dress for Tragedies, Trials and Temptations

    You have come to the top of a mountain peek; the only way to continue on your journey is to navigate your way down the steep slope and over to the next lift. You have three choices: Just do it. Take off your skis, walk back to the last lift and risk your life trying…

  • Confidently Flawed

    This week marked the anniversary of my daughter’s death. As a tribute to her, I like to share a bit of her story this time of year. It may seem off topic to blog about child loss when my niche is Confident Beauty, but my Trisomy 18 baby is the one who woke me up…