When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart will search for an escape. 37 years ago today, I was asked “Do you Julie take Joe to be your husband, to honor and cherish in good times and in bad, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, until death […]
Author: Julie Weaver
The “Dance of Grief”
“They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” ~ Anne Lamott Moving through the journey of Grief is never a linear move, […]
Breaking Out Of The Box
People can only process so much at any one time, which is why we categorize our Emotions, Relationships, and Thoughts in a neat and orderly fashion in our mind. Not because we are neat and orderly, but because we prefer to handle things we are familiar with, know, or understand. We don’t like to be […]
Broken beyond repair!
“Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life” ~ Parker J. Palmer I don’t know if you have ever had one of “those” weeks? Over the last week my ice maker in my fridge broke, my phone camera broke, and my computer camera broke. After hours of talking […]
Turning Back to Move Forward!
It’s more fun to take a new path, start something new and exciting, rather than finish what you’ve left undone or in disrepair. But. . . it is in the rebuilding of the broken where you will be made whole again! ~ Julie Weaver When you have gone through a catastrophic loss of a Loved […]
What do you Collect?
“The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.” ― Chuck Palahniuk I’ve always found it interesting to see what people Collect: Cars, Stamps, Thimbles, Dolls, Shot Glasses, Art, Figurines, etc. When people would ask me if I collected anything jokingly I used to say “dust”, […]
Builders in Heaven?!
I received a text from my daughter today when she was greeted by a Facebook Memory of her dad. My husband was standing next to my other daughter, Kelly, after he had just finished building an 11 foot wide, lighted Bookshelf, TV entertainment center that is a treasured focal point in her home. Nothing brought […]
Moving Forward is like the Flying Trapeze!
“Sometimes God brings times of transition to create transformation.” Lynn Cowell Someone once told me that you never “Move On” from grief, but you must learn to “Move Forward” in it! That’s what is known as being in Transition. Transition is one of the Hardest, Scariest places to be, because it’s not really a place. […]
THE PAINFUL DANCE OF GRIEF!
I had a funny thing happen to me today, that God used to teach me a valuable lesson! I was on my morning walk to the beach when I saw a guy getting ready to go scuba diving. He was dressed in full scuba gear, wet suit, mask, vest, hoses, and air tanks strapped […]
Pain can Define you, or Refine you!
“And once this storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, if the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what […]