by Jolene | Nov 27, 2023 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Grief, Spiritual Support
Practicing gratitude in hard seasons can be, well, hard. That less-than-astounding conclusion seems obvious, but I don’t think about such things when life is good. Only when challenges slap me upside the head do I return to practicing gratitude in hard seasons....
by Jolene | Nov 8, 2023 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Grief, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Every season has its challenges and joys. God has been injecting that truth into my heart with particular intensity this week. I wish he would stop. He began this exercise in my character development with a pain in my left side and lower back. It was a familiar issue...
by Jolene | Sep 25, 2023 | Different Dream, Grief, Special Needs Parenting
Caregivers can do hard things. In the nearly sixty-seven years my mother and I shared on this earth, she taught me many lessons. The one I leaned on the most as our time to say good-bye drew near was this one. Caregivers can do hard things. As a child, I didn’t know...
by Kelly Simpson | Sep 20, 2023 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Grief, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
“Why did this happen to my child?” is one of the first questions that comes to mind when hard things happen to our kids. Guest blogger Kelly Simpson explains what she has learned from posing that question as the parent of a child with a serious medical condition....
by Kristin Faith Evans | Aug 23, 2023 | Different Dream, Grief, How-Tos, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Managing mixed emotions when our kids with mixed emotions go back to school can be, well, emotional. Guest blogger Kristin Faith Evans is experiencing a wide gambit of those emotions this August and is here to share her best feelings-management techniques with you...
by Lisa Pelissier | Jul 5, 2023 | Different Dream, Grief, Spiritual Support
Have you ever asked yourself what God is doing with your life? Why did the things happen to you that did? Guest blogger Lisa Pelissier is here with a reminder that God never promised an easy road. It was a popular Christian saying during my college years. The Four...
