Adriel Booker's Blog, page 2
April 21, 2021
We’re growing! Would you like to join Our Scarlett Stories team?
Great news! We’re looking to expand Our Scarlett Stories team with a few new positions in order to strengthen our community and expand our ability to support bereaved mothers and their families. These are volunteer positions and will include regular zoom team meetings with Adriel Booker for connection, prayer, and ministry development, as well as a private mentoring call with Adriel each month.
Length of commitment: Six-week trial to make sure ...
April 1, 2021
Holy Saturday & the transforming mercy of liminal spaces
Between the darkness of Good Friday and the light of Easter Sunday, Holy Saturday hangs suspended. It’s a liminal space—neither here nor there. If we take the time to enter in we’ll feel it too: things are not as they were, nor are they as they will be. There’s a tension between what we’ve known and what’s ahead.
We are in-between.
Maybe you are in your own sort of in-between, liminal space.
Perhaps something has thrust you into crisis—a relational breakdown, the loss of a loved one, work dried...
Holy Saturday and the transformative power of liminal spaces
Between the darkness of Good Friday and the light of Easter Sunday, Holy Saturday hangs suspended. It’s a liminal space—neither here nor there. If we take the time to enter in we’ll feel it too: things are not as they were, nor are they as they will be. There’s a tension between what we’ve known and what’s ahead.
We are in-between.
Maybe you are in your own sort of in-between, liminal space.
Perhaps something has thrust you into crisis—a relational breakdown, the loss of a loved one, work dri...
March 23, 2021
Survey: Crisis, loss, transition, and faith
How do crisis, grief and loss, or seasons of transition shape our lives and faith?
As I work on my next book, I’d be so grateful to have your feedback on your own experiences with crisis, loss, transition, and faith. How have these intersections shaped you?
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A Survey: Tell me about your experience with crisis, loss, transition, and faith
How do crisis, grief and loss, or seasons of transition shape our lives and faith?
As I work on my next book, I’d be so grateful to have your feedback on your own experiences with crisis, loss, transition, and faith. How have these intersections shaped you?
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March 8, 2021
On my nightstand
It’s been a while since I’ve shared what I’m reading so thought I’d share what’s been shaping me recently. (Do you think about what you consume and how it will shape your ideas? If not, I encourage you to.)
We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation by Brian McLaren. We’re reading through this slowly as ‘house church’ and gleaning so much. Also, McLaren is a truly gifted writer.
November 1, 2020
Backyard Covid Camping with Vuly Australia
If Covid hasn’t upended plans and forced us to be creative in new ways this year, then I don’t know what year you’re living through. Couldn’t be 2020.
We’ve all lost something. Perhaps gained something. Or maybe all of the above. What have you lost?
In the grand scheme of things, the disappointment from losing the “smaller” things like a family vacation, a significant gathering, or a work opportunity is fairly minor (compared to losing a job, your health, your home, or a loved one), but that ...
October 11, 2020
Hold space, remember, and grow toward wholeness after loss
Today is the due date for the first baby we lost—Scarlett. To be honest, it’s simply too hard for me to remember all four due dates and all four anniversaries of our babies’ passing. But Scarlett’s is easy for me because it comes during pregnancy and infant loss awareness week and my inbox and social media feeds are filled with sentiments and memories of babies gone too soon. I couldn’t forget i...
Two events to help you grieve with hope—An invitation to hold space, remember, and grow toward wholeness after loss
Today is the due date for the first baby we lost—Scarlett. To be honest, it’s simply too hard for me to remember all four due dates and all four anniversaries of our babies’ passing. But Scarlett’s is easy for me because it comes during pregnancy and infant loss awareness week and my inbox and social media feeds are filled with sentiments and memories of babies gone too soon. I couldn’t forget if I tried.
I have a lot to say about all of this—pregnancy loss, grieving with hope, forming a theo...
October 7, 2020
Pregnancy & Baby Loss Remembrance Service
We know the deep pain of losing a baby. We also know there’s no blueprint for parents to know how to grieve or commemorate their baby’s life after miscarriage, stillbirth, or other forms of pregnancy and infant loss. It can be confusing and disorienting on top of the sorrow. We sometimes feel misunderstood or unsure if our grief is too much or not enough. Sometimes we hardly know what ...
