Tag: death

• 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

• Living Your Eulogy: The Importance of Relationships

  

  O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah. And now, O LORD, for what do…

  thespiritofmemories

  February 9, 2025

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

  death, eulogy, forgiveness, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, living, 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

• 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

• Lament: Joy in the Mourning

  

  A heavy heart is born of a broken relationship, but for the Christ follower the heart gives way to lament and the soul releases tears mingled with joy. The promise of Joy in the Morning. Joy in the Mourning is sure and true just as the Word made flesh. Those moments when my heavy heart…

  thespiritofmemories

  June 15, 2022

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

  broken relationships, brokenness, death, eternal life, grace, HESED, joy, lament, Risen Christ, tears, tomb

• What, Then, Shall We Fear?

  

  “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent‘ “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe?…

  thespiritofmemories

  August 24, 2021

  grace, health, home, life, relationships, religion

  death, division, fear, God, God is good, grace, HESED, life, mercy, wisdom