Embracing Limitations
But what if our limitations aren’t meant to be escaped but embraced?
Author: hillarygrigel
Less is More in 2024
Happy New Year! For the past few years as a New Year’s tradition, I have chosen a word for the year. A theme. A vision for how I would like to improve and live life in the new year. Past words have included: bold, confidence, savor, health, surrender, and design. This year my word is – Less. No doubt we can all relate to…
Trusting God’s Timing: Embracing Unanswered Prayers
Have you ever had an unanswered or unfulfilled prayer request? Me too. 2023 has been a rollercoaster of a year and the reason I have been more silent than usual. It’s been a season of many hardships and a lot of prayer. Prayers that I have been repeating for months on end without seeing any…
When Troubles Make Us Lose Sight of What Really Matters
I have spent countless hours this past month bouncing back and forth between waiting room music and customer service representatives. In fact, this past month has been consumed with not just calls, but scheduling home visits, missed, canceled, or improperly scheduled home visits, and back orders all to replace broken appliances in our home. What…
Resilience
As my son settled into place at the piano, I spoke with his piano teacher – “The doctor said he is fine to play if he is comfortable playing.” Without hesitation he began. He moved his shoulder to compensate for his inability to move his wrist. His fingers peaking out from a cast that ran from his…
Fostering Community
Over these past few posts we have been talking about Loneliness and How to Combat Loneliness. Probably not a huge surprise, but we combat loneliness through relationships. More specifically, healthy relationships where we feel safe and seen. These relationships fall into one of two categories: We covered friendships in – How to be a Good Friend & What…
What Does A Healthy Friendship Look Like?
We all long to have friendships. However, oftentimes we settle for unhealthy relationships. It might be because that is all we have ever known. Or we are so attached to our relationships, we are even willing to settle for dysfunctional ones. Whatever the reason, the questions begs to be asked – what does a healthy Friendship look like? Before…
Meeting Jesus in Our Mess
Over the past few weeks we have been discussing loneliness, combatting loneliness, and friendships. Next week we will jump back into that series, but this week, Holy Week, let’s pause together and reflect upon the work of Jesus on the Cross. Easter. The completed redemptive work of Jesus. Jesus’s death and resurrection. The forgiveness of sins. In the…
How to be a Good Friend
Over these past few posts we have been talking about loneliness and how to combat loneliness. In my last post I shared how we combat loneliness and probably not a huge surprise, it’s through healthy relationships. Healthy relationships are relationships where we feel safe and seen. These relationships fall into one of two categories: Over the next few…
Combatting Loneliness
In my pervious post – An Epidemic of Loneliness, we explored the prevalence of loneliness and its negative health effects. But how do we effectively combat loneliness? The simple and yet simultaneously not so simple answer: relationships. Relationships give us connection. When we feel lonely, it is an indication that there is a gap between…