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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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

"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...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

As Lent begins, I offer a portion of my struggle to come into the light. What if, as I feared, the light of Christ is not a harsh,...

We prepared so thoroughly for John Paul Raphael's birth and life. Now what? I don't mean the lifetime of loss we are left with 13...