While the love and support of others can be a tremendous gift, I have learned that the deepest healing does not come from what is happening around us. People will offer advice, tell you to focus on the memories, or say they are in a better place, they'll tell you to give yourself time, be strong, stay busy so you can take your mind off it and to stay focused. But healing from suicide grief is not something that is done from the outside or on the outside, it is truly something

Today I spent time in the Word of God, reading 1 Samuel 3:1–14. Before I began, I asked God to reveal Himself to me through His Word. I wanted Him to show me what I needed to see, not just what was happening in Samuel’s life or Eli’s house, but what He wanted to reveal in me. And as I read, I couldn’t help but feel as though, at one time, I was the house of Eli. That is difficult for me to write. In this passage, God tells Samuel that judgment is coming upon Eli’s house. Eli

"See, I am making all things new." Revelation 21:5 This dream was not a prophecy of doom. It was the cry of a heart learning to trust God again with covenant, family, and the future. A few weeks ago, I attended a Christian retreat called the Walk to Emmaus. During the second night there, I had one of the most vivid and disturbing dreams of my life. I was standing inside what felt like my daughter’s home. But inside the home was this massive zoo-like enclosure/cage filled