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HOPE WHEN FAITH FEELS FRAIL

June 25, 2022

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This "you only get 18 summers" thing is driving me

This "you only get 18 summers" thing is driving me nuts.

True.
Terrifying.
Crushing.

I see it everywhere and I don't need the reminder. I'm so aware of her fleeting it all is.

Which is why I'm so grateful that guy gets all the summers I don't and all the ones I get wrong.

New post at https://seeanewthing.com/18-summers/

#18summerswithyourkids #parentingencouragement

Friday: the day the sky turns black. It's strang

Friday: the day the sky turns black.

It's strange that we call it good, because it doesn't feel that way standing by the tomb. It doesn't seem good when the ground splits, or darkness swallows us whole.

But Friday acknowledges our loss of innocence and love and hope. It recognizes the kind of crushing grief that makes breathing unbearable.

I think of it when I’m struggling with the diagnosis.
When he’s on the floor, unable to move.
I remember it when the news leaves me gutted.
When her world comes undone.
And when the thing that happens to other people was done to me.

Friday takes that seriously.

It doesn’t pretend or bypass. Friday looks all of our death in the face. And on Friday, the darkness that was meant to kill became the soil for new life. The goodness of this day speaks to our worst ones.

Darkness is real and deep. And because Jesus entered it first, our darkness is coming undone.

This ending is not the end.

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#goodfridayhope #goodfriday23 #jesusknows #griefhopelove

I went to sleep last night with unfolded laundry s

I went to sleep last night with unfolded laundry spread over my bed - remnants of a “to-do” list I didn’t finish. Tasks that will inevitably get repeated over and over.

Sound familiar?

It made me think about how much of life is like that, and how much we crave significance, even in the middle of the mundane.

This week on the blog - a post about finding glory in futility, or why everything matters, even if it feels like nothing does.

Link in bio: https://seeanewthing.com/finding-glory-in-futility/

#glory #futility #everymomentmatters #meaningfulmotherhood

God literally calls us to love him with our heart,

Hope for when life is hard and faith feels frail.

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