Heartbreak to Strength Blog
Helping you find hope, joy, and purpose in your unexpected storms. Friend, I cannot promise that life will be storm-free, but I can promise that God will be faithful in the middle of the storm. He was for me, and I know He will for you. My prayer is that you will find encouragement and hope each week through my Heartbreak to Strength blog.
Surviving the Broken Heart Syndrome
I’ll never forget the day I literally and physically felt my heart break beneath a burden of grief I believed was too heavy for me to bear. I realize now I had actually suffered from…
Will You Give God Both Hands?
It happened largely by accident last summer. At a family retreat on the shores of Lake Michigan, I resolved to widen my horizons and plunge into the challenges of adventure with both feet. So there…
Unexpected Restoration from Uninvited Pain
In some ways, it doesn’t matter what exactly happened that day. But it was the day my heart broke wide. As it broke, out tumbled a backlog of confusion and wounding, spilling from my heart…
Strength can be found in Surrender
When I was young the playground had a large disk with cold metal pipes bolted on top to hold onto. We would push it around as fast as possible then jump on. As our weight…
Learning to Trust God After Pregnancy Loss
After multiple miscarriages, becoming a mom was all I could think about. Single mindedly. Almost every hour of every day. I desperately wanted a baby. It was heartbreaking to think about the babies we had…
Divine Exchange: The Power of Surrender
September, my birthday month and his. Always a month a looked forward to, celebrating our birthdays together, 2 days apart. I had spent my birthday in labor with him, and I never let him forget…
Finding The Strength to Embrace the Life You Have
“This is autism,” the clinician told me about my three-year-old son after a three hour-long test. I stared at the piece of paper she placed in front of me on the wooden table and nodded….
Finding Faith As Your Parenting Heart Breaks
My toes were cold as I tiptoed out to my Chevy Astro Van on that early October morning. By early, I mean 2:15 a.m. I was wearing Tweety Bird flannel pajamas. I thought if I…
God Redeems, Heals, and Strengthens
As women we are blessed to physically house another human being for the better part of a year. This little life cannot survive apart from the mother. Their very existence depends on her lifeblood. The two…