I have struggled with the idea of changing the title of my WordPress blog now that time has passed since the raw early days of my grief. It would seem that, yes, time has healed me in many ways. I will always miss Brandon as I live out the rest of my life on this…
Originally posted on Soul Food:
“Yet is was the Lord’s will to crush [his Son] and cause him to suffer…” (Isaiah 53:10) I’ve studied the book of Job (the “o” in “Job” is long as in “stove”) numerous times. But, until recently, I haven’t had the courage to read it devotionally (daily readings) since 2013…
Originally posted on Soul Food:
Reading through the Psalms you commonly see the following subheadings: a psalm of David, or a psalm of Asaph,… I’ll never forget what I once heard one of my professors say: “A psalm is simply a person’s response to God’s activity in their life.” That’s why, in the Psalms, we…
Originally posted on thelifeididntchoose:
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but ‘So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no…
I am a nine year veteran of loss; the greatest loss a mother can experience. My child. At first I could not believe it. Denial. I fell to the floor crying. Shock. Why God? Didn’t You love me? Didn’t You love my child? What did I do wrong? Not enough faith? How could You do…
Suicide is a hard thing for us to talk about. Someone has died, the circumstance seems unnatural and we don’t know what to say. We feel the stigma and the sting. Personally, I haven’t been really close with anyone who died by suicide but I’ve seen from a distance, the way a suicide can wreck […]…
Originally posted on Soul Food:
I cannot begin to estimate the number of people my wife, Michelle, and I have counseled since the suicide of our son, Jordan. Countless people who have, themselves, suffered the loss of a loved one due to suicide. The first one to contact us happened within the first week after…
Originally posted on Soul Food:
After recently reading my original blog, Suicide and the Bible, a reader kindly wrote, I was reading your “Suicide and the Bible”..and I just have a question. I’m genuinely curious to know what you think about this. So you’re saying nowhere in the Bible does it say suicide will send…
We will have no need of hope in heaven.
Originally posted on Soul Food:
As a Christian, I believe in heaven. As a pastor, I’ve studied and taught about heaven. As a musician, I’ve noted that almost every single hymn written has heaven the subject of its final verse. When my dad died I didn’t really think differently about heaven. When my sister died…
We have a strong faith in God and know that we are going to see Brandon again one day when we pass from this life into the next.
I have borrowed the following questions from another site: Thank you, Kathleen, for introducing me by way of your own blog: I thought as I read the interview with Maeve’s Mom how I would an… Source: An Interview With Brandon’s Mom
