Stories

By Mandy Hitchcock About a year after my seventeen-month-old daughter Hudson died from a sudden bacterial infection, I began to notice these birds singing ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Lisa Fleming These days, I consider life to be an opportunity. It’s a gift we are all given with an unknown expiration date, ...
Illness Stories
By Trish Thomas Our moments have great power and possibility. They can discourage us, destroy us, deliver us, or drive us. My most defining ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Caity Loepfe It felt like a death sentence. After years of listening to the fighting, feeling responsible for protecting my younger sisters, and ...
Anxiety Stories
By Jennifer Massoni Pardini We lost you nearly four years ago on a Saturday in June. “He’s beautiful,” my nurse said as she placed ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Diana Stone I stood in front of a group of Zimbabweans, three churches combined into one for our arrival. They sat – on ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Kristina Smith “Breathe.” I didn’t want her to stop. The doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists in the ER – they all worked ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Laura Rundell “When you’re on your knees and answers seem so far away. You’re not alone, stop holding on, and just be held.”  ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Michelle Volpe One Sunday in church, someone asked me how I was doing. The only thing I could really realistically compare my grief ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Rachel George Sometimes it’s the small talk that kills me. Those little questions from people in the grocery store line, bank tellers, waitresses, ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Michelle Villalobos January 31, 2014, is the day my heart shattered. It’s the day everything I thought I knew disintegrated right in front ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Ashley Sullenger It was a hot summer day, and my husband and I were happily walking out of the movie theatre, enjoying the ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Ady Dorsett Hayden’s life earth-side was short but impactful nonetheless. After five painful, yet empowering hours of labor, he entered this world screaming ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Jessica Watson Eight years ago our daughter Hadley passed away. She was one of triplets, all three vying to leave my stomach long ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Tracie Loux I’ll never forget seeing this line in Mattie’s obituary: “He is survived by father, John, mother, Tracie, brother and sister-in-law, Nick and ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Dana Ludvik I had always been afraid to hold babies. At family events, I dreaded the moment when someone inevitably asked, “Don’t you ...
Death of a Child Stories
By John Ennis, Lt. Colonel in the United States Marine Corps Hopeless, broken, defeated…these are the words that I would use to describe myself as ...
Death of a Child Stories
By Trey and Nicole Flynn What is it like to lose a child? Silly question answered in two words. “The struggles.” It’s an understatement ...
Death of a Child Stories

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