Let Yourself Be Loved

Breaking My Alabaster Jar

Nov 12

I Almost Forgot to Say Goodbye (1 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Aug 17

To my Daughter on her Wedding Day

Jul 12

Our Life, Our Sweetness & Our Hope

Jun 3

The Embrace of the Cross

Apr 15

So this is what grief looks like today

Mar 15

Blessing or Curse?

Mar 3

On the 12th Day of Christmas...

Jan 5

The Loss of Innocence

Dec 29, 2021

Hail and Blessed be the Hour and the Moment

Dec 1, 2021

Jealousy and Lies

Aug 30, 2021

When you Struggle with your Story

Aug 16, 2021

What I Learned from my Grandmother

Aug 1, 2021

Amazing Grace

Jul 21, 2021

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Jun 26, 2021

The End of an Era

Jun 14, 2021

A Very Hard Thing

May 27, 2021

Right on Time

May 16, 2021

Come out of Hiding

Apr 29, 2021

When the Darkness is Doubly Dark

Oct 26, 2019

A Plea to the Sacred Heart of Jesus from a Mother's Broken Heart

Jun 28, 2019

The Invisible Boy

Jun 5, 2019

A Seat at the Table

May 9, 2019

Ugly Grief

Mar 27, 2019

Transformation

Mar 7, 2019

Now What????

Feb 20, 2019

The Last Breath

Feb 8, 2019

Happy Birthday, Sweet Baby

Jan 4, 2019

On the 3rd Day of Christmas...

Dec 27, 2018

Mary, Our Mother: An Invitation to Intimacy, Comfort, and Trust

Dec 12, 2018

Thanksgiving

Nov 29, 2018

Babies

Nov 10, 2018

When the Season Doesn't Change

Sep 27, 2018

Sacred Suffering

Sep 14, 2018

Missing You, Missing Me

Sep 7, 2018

Why It Was Worth It

Aug 1, 2018

The Big Lie

Jul 22, 2018

Empty Hallways

Jul 18, 2018

Brother Love

Jun 27, 2018

Meet our Monkey!!!

Jun 6, 2018

Walking with John Paul Raphael

May 29, 2018

What is this feeling????

May 23, 2018

In the Middle of the Mess

May 10, 2018

What I Have Learned About Forgiveness

May 1, 2018

Finding Myself When My Worst Fears Came True

Apr 24, 2018

Do you want to tell me about your loss?

Apr 13, 2018

A Letter to Bald Head Island

Apr 3, 2018

Turning the Calendar

Feb 1, 2018

Let Yourself be Loved

Jan 10, 2018

Landing in a Foreign Country

Sep 23, 2017

Elizabeth Leon

Nov 12
5 min

Breaking My Alabaster Jar

I have to let go of what I thought my life would look like to receive the grace of how my life actually is. I have to let Him fill me in...

I Almost Forgot to Say Goodbye (1 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 17
4 min

I Almost Forgot to Say Goodbye (1 of 3 in the Goodbye Series)

Sometimes as mothers, in all the doings, we forget that someday it will actually be done. "There is a time for everything, and a season...

Elizabeth Leon

Jul 12
7 min

To my Daughter on her Wedding Day

My oldest daughter, Maggie, married Zach Ness at St. Theresa Catholic Church on June 25, 2022. It was my honor to share these words at...

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 3
4 min

Our Life, Our Sweetness & Our Hope

When I sought Mary, she came flooding into my life and mothered me where I was most in need of comfort and care. I didn’t always know...

Elizabeth Leon

Apr 15
3 min

The Embrace of the Cross

Love is never lost. It is only held in the crossbeam of salvation, held in the space between the nails and eternity, waiting to be...

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 15
2 min

So this is what grief looks like today

One of the hardest things about being a thinker, speaker, and writer on grief is that I am in (and will always be in) grief. I may have...

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 3
6 min

Blessing or Curse?

I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I've set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life,...

Elizabeth Leon

Jan 5
4 min

On the 12th Day of Christmas...

This post originally appeared on the Heartbreak to Strength blog by Jodi Rosser. Our family has a long-standing tradition of singing the...

Elizabeth Leon

Dec 29, 2021
4 min

The Loss of Innocence

A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were...

Hail and Blessed be the Hour and the Moment

Elizabeth Leon

Dec 1, 2021
6 min

Hail and Blessed be the Hour and the Moment

Several years ago, the St. Andrew’s Novena found me in my driveway. I was rushing out to my van, as I do dozens of times a day, and...

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 30, 2021
6 min

Jealousy and Lies

When I am jealous, I separate myself from the goodness God is offering me. At the root of jealousy is always a lie. The green-eyed...

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 16, 2021
3 min

When you Struggle with your Story

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus. - Philippians...

Elizabeth Leon

Aug 1, 2021
3 min

What I Learned from my Grandmother

Patricia Jane Patton Lawhon died a year ago today. She was a force of life to be reckoned with, by anyone's description. She left a...

Elizabeth Leon

Jul 21, 2021
7 min

Amazing Grace

"O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God...Who has known the mind of the Lord?" Romans 11:33-34 Almost four weeks...

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 26, 2021
3 min

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

We rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And...

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 14, 2021
4 min

The End of an Era

"Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love." - St. Therese of Lisieux On Tuesday I hopped in the...

Elizabeth Leon

May 27, 2021
5 min

A Very Hard Thing

"The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he...

Elizabeth Leon

May 16, 2021
4 min

Right on Time

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 Several years back, I learned about the...

Elizabeth Leon

Apr 29, 2021
4 min

Come out of Hiding

I believe I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13 It has been well over a year since I have written...

Elizabeth Leon

Oct 26, 2019
5 min

When the Darkness is Doubly Dark

The deepest darkness of grief is the discouraging reality that since our love for our son will never change, the agony of his loss will...

A Plea to the Sacred Heart of Jesus from a Mother's Broken Heart

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 28, 2019
7 min

A Plea to the Sacred Heart of Jesus from a Mother's Broken Heart

I wrote these words less than a month after John Paul Raphael died. I want to share them today, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of...

Elizabeth Leon

Jun 5, 2019
7 min

The Invisible Boy

For those of us who have lost children, there is a constant tension between the reality of our life without our child and the "what might...

Elizabeth Leon

May 9, 2019
11 min

A Seat at the Table

Do you remember this song? Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came… Isn’t this true...

Elizabeth Leon

Mar 27, 2019
11 min

Ugly Grief

After 10 months of grieving, I gave myself permission to stop trying to grieve well and just grieve. What followed was ugly, messy, and...

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