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When @gracepcho texted me matter-of-factly and told me she and @rachwade teamed up so she was coming to Thomas’ visitation and memorial, I didn’t even argue. I needed her to hold my hand when I saw my brother in his casket. I needed her t
I don’t talk about my family on here a lot but we’ve been talking and we hope our story brings you some kind of closer to God.
These are my sisters. In order to understand the faithfulness of God, we have to go back to the start. This pho
In Jewish tradition, you mourn for 30 days and hardly leave home. The whole grief process is long, but that first month is for stopping your whole dang life. 30 days ago, my brother died after a struggle with addiction.
It’s hard to process thi
My brother never saw my engagement ring in person. The last text I sent him was when Ken proposed and I ended it with, “Love you and miss you.” He was excited for us and said it back. As we started to leave the cemetery after burying my b
The funeral isn’t supposed to be for a young father of four. His one-year-old baby isn’t supposed to sit in her mother’s lap in front of his casket on a cold, dreary Friday. Children aren’t supposed to pass out sno-cones or ju
Every day, it seems, my brother dies again.
I wake up and remind myself where I am and what’s going on and the ache settles back in. Sometimes, my mind is racing through the circumstances and the conversations. The ways we begged for his good.

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