#BecauseofRHE
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Remembering the writing and life of Rachel Held Evans
Category: grief
- Photos by Audrey Imfeld, NILMDTS
- “Pile of Feet”, January 12, 2007
- Audrey Imfeld, NILMDTS photographer
- Kissing Noah Goodbye
- Audrey Imfeld, NILMDTS photographer.
Life and death are a razor’s edge. This knowledge does not make me an expert, but it is something familiar to me and this page will reflect posts on the subject. My prayer in sharing my journey through grief is anyone reading will be comforted and filled with hope.
Grief and loss are something we all experience here on Earth. I used to fear death, as well as try to avoid pain at all costs. Having walked through the loss of a child, as well as losing family members and friends, the fear of death no longer tangles me, but now I trust God’s undying love in the process. I don’t have it all figured out, but pain and suffering are two things I’ve embraced because in walking through them, I am learning to live life to the fullest. One. Day. At. A. Time.
A Bitter Cold Day in January
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It was sunny and gorgeous, like most days in Colorado, but it was January and a bitter cold front had brought in single digit temps overnight. Forecasters promised warmer days, but we wouldn’t see them for a while. The day had finally come for us to leave Children’s Hospital of Denver, a place our family […]
How to End Gun Violence
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Ending gun violence begins before the gun is ever purchased, it begins before there’s a supply and demand. Ending gun violence, ending VIOLENCE: verbal, emotional, physical, spiritual; must begin with exposing fear for what it is: a liar whose tactic is to divide and isolate us, a liar that would lead us to believe in […]
Do You Suffer from Paralysis by Analysis?
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My husband will press buttons on his keyboard… …buttons or tabs or keys he may not know what they are there for, but he presses them to find out what they do. You guys, the thought of this has me over here breathing in a paper bag!
WOKE!
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“I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred, I get so many things I don’t deserve…” – Bono, The Miracle of Joey Ramone It’s no secret I’m a huge U2 fan. Their music has impacted and influenced every season of my life. This morning I woke up before 5am CST. The […]
It’s a Beautiful Day
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Eleven years ago, it was bitter cold in Denver, Colorado. 2 or 3 degrees, if I remember right. The chill is still part of my memory, though most of me felt numb. Jason went out to the parking garage of Children’s Hospital to pull up the car and let it warm up for a few […]
Sledgehammers are AWESOME!
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Here’s the deal: We moved to Nashville in August 2016 to an Airbnb we thought we’d be in for 3 months. Between August and Easter 2017 we searched for houses on-line and in person, even making offers on some, and were out-bid 3 or 4 times. One house we spent 1.5 hours with an HGTV designer […]
Theirs Was a Love Story
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… Growing up with Bobby (Bob) and Bebe (Betty), we witnessed affection, heard loving words exchanged, learned tooshie pinching techniques we would then test out on our grandparents much to their utter surprise and shock. Of course the reactions we witnessed made us want to pinch tooshies, all the more…well, I guess I can only […]
I Choose Life
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Oh my, God! I just did one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done. I took a baton that felt prematurely passed, and I’m going forward with it, because retreating isn’t an option. Stopping and raising my fist to the sky and screaming, “WHY?!” won’t alter time or the impending outcome, it won’t make […]
On Death and Living: A Series, Part 2
Posted onTwo things about death that, I believe conjures, festers, fosters, and instigates fear, are the HOW and WHEN…sometimes to the extent of paralysis when it comes to LIVING. If we have a foundational understanding that every single person on this earth is born and dies, then the question of WHO is already established: Everyone…WE will all die… […]