Tag: grief

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Breath of God

  

  I watched my uncle’s life escape his body. I watched as his daughter cried and his sisters sighed at the loss of someone they love deeply. His last breath came and went to the aether. His heart stilled like all the relationships with his children, his sisters, his friends. The pallor colour took over his…

  thespiritofmemories

  December 21, 2022

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

  friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, relationships, Sorrow

• When the Plague Falls

  

  For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but…

  thespiritofmemories

  October 3, 2021

  diabetes, grace, health, home, homeschool, journey, life, relationships, religion

  friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, plague of the 21st century, pug, relationships