Category: Sorrow

• Elizabeth

  This Suffering Servant of God dismantles all human logic about how we should live when deeply hurt.

  thespiritofmemories

  August 6, 2025

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, religion, Sorrow

  bible, christianity, divorce, faith, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, infidelity, Jesus, life, love, marriage, mercy, relationships, single motherhood, unplanned pregnancy

• Holding Joy and Sorrow Communally

  

  I spent a sleepless night anxiously awaiting news on the birth of my granddaughter. Three weeks early and tiny, I was hoping her weight was enough to keep her out of NICU. My night was spent looking at the phone for any texts, any news that she and her momma were just fine. The next…

  thespiritofmemories

  July 20, 2025

  journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  birth, death, faith, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, Jesus, life, love, mercy, relationships

• In My Grief, He Carries Me

  

  When grief bears heavy, hope carries because God is a God of HESED.

  thespiritofmemories

  December 20, 2024

  grace, Holidays, life, relationships, Sorrow

  Breath of God, friends, God, grace, grief, HESED, hope, life, love, mercy, relationships

• Of Divorce & Death

  

  Divorce is never a clean separation. Death is. But only for a time.

  thespiritofmemories

  August 22, 2024

  grace, Jesus Christ, life, relationships, Sorrow

  death, divorce, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, relationships

• Words Hold Power

  

  These words tumble around in life. Spilling over paper, over voices, over music. Spilling through communion, through worship, through anger. Spilling into memory, into conscience, into emptiness. Spilling, ever spilling.

  thespiritofmemories

  August 11, 2024

  forgiveness, grace, health, home, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  bible, creation, death, faith, friends, God, grace, HESED, Jesus, life, love, mercy, power, relationships, vulnerable, words

• A Parable On Experiencing The Father’s Love

  

  The music from our Father’s house radiates. Walk in His love and dance to His song.

  thespiritofmemories

  June 20, 2023

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  conviction not condemnation, dance, dancing in joy, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, music, relationships, salvation, sin, songs of forgiveness, songs of grace, songs of love

• A Parable On Experiencing The Father’s Love

  

  The music from our Father’s house radiates. Walk in His love and dance to His song.

  thespiritofmemories

  June 19, 2023

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  conviction not condemnation, dance, dancing in joy, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, music, relationships, salvation, sin, songs of forgiveness, songs of grace, songs of love

• Baptism

  

  Baptism, identity, and science.

  thespiritofmemories

  March 27, 2023

  grace, Israel, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, religion, Sorrow

  birth, Dead Sea, death, friends, God, grace, HESED, Jordan River, life, love, mercy, Messiah, Qumran, rebirth, relationships, waters, Wilderness of Judah

• Time Escapes

  

  Breath in slowly drinking the seconds as they pass. Breath out even slower releasing those hurts that built up. Grace.

  thespiritofmemories

  February 15, 2023

  forgiveness, Germany, grace, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  cobblestones, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, living, love, loving, loving kindness, mercy, relationships, space, time

• Who Is My Neighbor?

  

  A heavy day in the history of mankind.

  thespiritofmemories

  February 4, 2023

  forgiveness, Germany, grace, journey, life, relationships, religion, Sorrow

  Buchenwald, concentration camp, evil, friends, God, grace, HESED, life, love, mercy, neighbor, relationships, the Good Samaritan