“O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here…” When Sorrow comes at Christmas time we are often not prepared Grief seems to have no place in the festive Christmas we imagine for ourselves. It contradicts the joy and excitement we associate with this holiday. When I was...
Being assigned a day of honor on a calendar, like so many well-intentioned things a Mother endures, can become a gauntlet of emotions for women who didn’t carry to term, who relinquished their child at birth, who were judged as unfit, who lost a child, who are no longer the guardian, or who are...
Our mindset is key to managing hard emotions. The old saying is absolutely true, that it is not what happens to us in life but what we do with it. For every person still suffering from something “unforgivable” that was done to them, someone else experienced a similar fate and handled it more effectively. We...