This can be a sensitive subject, especially for Christians who believe that the ongoing war with Iran might be justified. Sincere believers can hold different opinions on these issues. Some view war through the lens of national security or as a “just war.” Others focus on the human toll and find it difficult to reconcile
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I reflect on the days of unbearable pain after losing my husband. I felt like someone drowning in a vast ocean, reaching desperately for any blade of grass drifting by, hoping it might keep me from sinking. In that endless water, even the smallest trace of hope felt like a miracle. In the midst of
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I came across photos I took at home of the incredible sunset I pass each evening — a sky spilling gold and fire. Yet something unsettled me: even the most breathtaking beauty cannot fill the loneliness, leaving it distant and almost untouchable. If you are asked this question: would you choose a horizon painted gold,
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—-Grief, displacement, and learning to see differently I came to San Francisco over a month ago, a city I never imagined would become part of my life. It was never a plan, a dream, or even a passing thought. Life brought me here the way grief often does—without asking, without warning. After losing my husband,
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Beauty is right in front of us. However, when our minds are elsewhere — when we are distressed, depressed, in pain, or grieving — we cannot see, sense, or feel it, no matter how breathtaking the world around us may be. When sorrow settles into the nervous system, the brain shifts into survival mode, and
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An unexpected conversation triggered another wave of the storm, just like the rainstorm outside the window right now. A cousin told me about a friend who lost his son to suicide. At the funeral, amid unimaginable pain, he said something simple yet profound: “You have to go through it to get through it.” Grief after
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…… On Love, Grief, and Learning to Go On 📌 Standing on Unfamiliar Ground Moving forward after losing my husband feels less like progress and more like learning to stand on unfamiliar ground. It has been a year and a half since he died, yet time has not behaved as people promised it would. It
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No one knows the exact number, but historians estimate that more than 100 billion people have lived and died since our species first walked the Earth. One hundred billion stories. One hundred billion faces. One hundred billion final breaths. And if each life was loved — even by one person — then grief has encircled
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Moving on with life after your husband dies is not a choice you make all at once; it is something life slowly asks of you through the pain. You learn to wake up, to handle ordinary days, to smile in public, and even to plan again. From the outside, it may look like healing, but
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…. What grief really demanded of me 🥲 My husband’s death almost destroyed me. He had no doubt I would keep my faith, but he had no idea his sudden departure would take it away. There are days I say this quietly, and days when the truth feels louder than my own voice. Losing him
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