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Continue reading →: Saturday Morning ThoughtsThere are still moments when loss hits me like a ton of bricks. I think part of the reason grief lasts so long is because there’s no way you could handle all the realizations at once. It would simply be too much. At first the realizations come close together. There…
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Continue reading →: Though He Slay (Flashback 3/3/22)I love looking back at words God gave me in the past and seeing how He used them to prepare me for things to come. This first “flashback” was written in 2010, eleven years before losing Justin, and the second, ten months after his death. All those years before, God…
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Continue reading →: Small WinsI mowed a lawn for the first time ever today. Some might say that’s ridiculous. How could I have possibly made it over 50 years without ever having mown a lawn? It’s not that I’m incapable of mowing a lawn, I’ve done much harder chores in my life, but the…
Living in the space between the beautiful and the brutal….
Hi, I’m Jen
Welcome to my little corner of the blogging world! I’m so glad you’re here! Within these pages my desire is that you will find encouragement and hope as you journey down your own life’s path.
In 2021, my life story took a hard turn when I unexpectedly lost my husband and the father of my six children and found myself having to navigate the deep waters of life after loss. Through what I hope are honest and vulnerable posts, I share the journey I’ve been on with the Lord and how I’m learning, one moment at a time, to live in the tension between the beautiful and the brutal.
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Sitting in the Tension 