Published Guest Blog Articles
by Brianne Edwards
Healing after the Loss of a Child
Published by Return to Zero: H.O.P.E.
We are told the loss of a child is something that you never recover from. You’re reminded frequently that you will never be the same. While those ideas are meant to help us understand that we have to find a new way of living and being in the world, sometimes they can push us into a state of helplessness and despair, thinking that it must mean we’ll be shattered and miserable forever. . .
When God Answers for Eternity, but not in the now
Published by Praying Through Ministries
God raised Lazarus from the dead after four days in the tomb (John 11:1-44). If He wanted to, He could have restored life and breath to my boy that was dying as I prayed.
It was a long road before I could see that God, indeed, answered the heart of my prayer...
My Child's Death Was Not God's Plan
Published by Praying Through Ministries
When I was wobbling from the knockout blow after the death of my son, there was no other statement more wounding to my faith than hearing people say that God planned this for me. If this is God’s plan, then I don’t really want that kind of God.
A Lifetime of Holy Saturdays
Published by Praying Through Ministries
In the moment of a child’s death, we enter into our own living of the Easter triduum. We have our hearts pierced like Mary’s, when our lifeless child is placed into our arms and everything we knew about this world is shattered into a million pieces.
To the mom who feels guilty after the death of her child:
Dear Loss Mom, I Honor Your Pain
Published by Her View From Home
The child you loved more than anything in the whole world has died, and with that death, came an unshakeable sense of guilt that if you had just done something differently, your child could still be alive.
The MIracle of Being Fed through 5,000 days of grief
Published by Her View from Home
It has been 5,000 days since I was struck with an insatiable hunger. A hunger and a longing for the physical presence of my little boy. I remember the intensity of what that new grief felt like. It was completely unfathomable for me to think I could survive another day or even another hour without him—and the thing that petrified me the most was that I would continue to live without him. . .
I love you all the way to heaven
Published by Her View from Home
. . . But now I understand that we are often so caught up here, in the physical, that we forget to look beyond. Beyond to what is less concrete but more real. To what is less obvious but more important. You have been able to open my eyes to that and direct my attention to new places. . . .
I long for the child who belongs to this gift
Published by Her View from Home
I stand there in the pawn shop with tears welling up to the brink of spilling over onto my cheeks. We’d found the perfect gift for our 13-year-old boy. A starter guitar. Cool looking, electric, and red. It’s perfect, even with a few imperfections.
Oh, how I long for the child who belongs to that gift. . .
The Amazing Way An Acquaintance Showed Up For Us After Our Baby Died
Published by Scary Mommy
It was an hour after I’d learned that my 10-month old son died during his morning nap at daycare. I had been sent home with my head spinning, barely able to breathe. I was sitting in an indescribable emptiness, in the eye of a storm of shock, chaos, fear, and pain. Yet, somehow, still feeling a pull to tend to the ordinary things around me.
And then she showed up. . .