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It’s been 3 years and 1 day since Blakely Mae was brought into Heaven and into the arms of the Father…



As Morgan and I worked through The Grief Recovery Handbook, we learned many bad ways we as people deal with grief…

You just experience the hardest day of your life. So many words could be used to describe it. Traumatizing, spirit-crushing, hopeless, world-shattering.

Tyler and I LOVE to find new ways to honor Blakely and do things that celebrate her. Through our counseling journey, we would try to mentally prepare for major milestones that would typically be celebrated if she was still with us. Birthdays, holidays, family pictures…any big event or day that easily reminds us of the hole in our family that she left behind.

One of the things I’m most thankful for is the photo app on my phone. At the touch of a button, thousands of memories are available for me to see. Family trips, days at home, videos of my children right after they were born.

Disclaimer: this is not meant to be a step by step guide on how to prepare yourself to have another baby after a loss. We say this a lots but everyone’s journey looks different. You can’t compare your own journey to ours or anyone else’s. This is simply a glimpse at the factors that helped us determine that we were ready to try again.

Fear is a crippling force. It is not simply a force that stops us from doing something we’ve never done, but also one that places seeds of doubt into our hearts and minds about what we’ve been through before. Our minds have a way of taking previous failures and telling us that we’ll fail again. Previous downfall means we’ll have downfall again. Previous death means death again.
Fear does that. God does something else.

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.” -Hebrews 10:23…

Taking life step by step

Timelines: Seeing God’s Faithfulness in Reverse

Suffering: Fight or Flight

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