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October 7, 2020
Pregnancy & Baby Loss Remembrance Service: Make space for your grief and honor your baby after miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death
Make space for your grief and honor your baby after miscarriage, stillbirth, or other forms of infant loss
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 ...
July 3, 2020
Are you experiencing a fresh wave of pandemic grief?
Suffering deserves the dignity of recognition
At the beginning of the pandemic I wrote and asked you:
How are you doing, really?
Reading through your responses gave me all the feels. I was floored by your candor, heart, humility, and vulnerability in sharing the very real struggles and disappointments, along with the sweet gifts some of you were surprised to find.
As we hit the halfway mark for 2020 it feels entirely appropriate to ask ...
Are you experiencing a fresh wave of pandemic grief? Persist in hope.
Are you experiencing a fresh wave of pandemic grief? Suffering deserves the dignity of recognition At the beginning of the pandemic I wrote and asked you: How are you doing, really? Reading through your responses gave me all the feels. I was floored by your candor, heart, humility, and vulnerability in sharing […]
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June 25, 2020
You don’t have to grieve alone
Grief
Everyone grieves. But not everyone grieves with hope. Compassionate community makes all the difference.
GraceAt our core we’re about women supporting women. We aren’t experts. We aren’t know-it-alls. But we are gracious, kind, and supportive companions.
HopeOur commitment is to gather a group of women willing to...
A Pregnancy and Baby Loss Community for You
Join Our Scarlett Stories—a compassionate support community for women to hold space for grief, grace, and hope after miscarriage and other forms of pregnancy and baby loss.
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June 10, 2020
Break bread together
In Luke 24 we’re transported to a dusty road headed to Emmaus where two of the disciples were in the middle of discussing the heartbreaking current events they were living through. I imagine them feeling any number of things—bewilderment, lament, fear, hopelessness, anger, confusion—when Jesus himself walked up among them and joined the conversation. Jesus […]
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June 3, 2020
Ruach: Breath of God
Ruach is the Hebrew word used in scripture for the breath of God. It is wind, Spirit, life. It’s not so much a physical force but an essence—God’s essence that sustains life. It’s sometimes also translated as Spirit of God, such as in Genesis chapter 1. As we continue to pray for the USA, for […]
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May 31, 2020
Suffering deserves the dignity of recognition
Suffering is everywhere. As it gets louder it demands our attention. It shouldn’t have to demand, but we’re so practiced at looking away that sometimes suffering must get loud enough for us to actually notice its presence. Suffering cannot be alleviated unless we first acknowledge it exists. It has to be named. In Grace […]
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May 27, 2020
Privilege and Power
I can’t stop thinking about my privilege lately. It’s been a growing revelation for a good portion of my adult life, but everything was quickened this year at the onset of the global pandemic. As I watched Australia beautifully handle the unfolding of the Coronavirus and manage to keep our case load numbers extremely […]
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May 25, 2020
What was lost
I spent some time naming all the things that were lost this year as the world was jarred to stillness with Covid-19. It was painful. Some of the things lost have been public—we lost a lot of income and one of the properties we run our ministry out of. We lost students, momentum, opportunity. Some […]
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