My name is D. Ray Davis, and I experienced terrible loss on February 18, 2019 when my wife died unexpectedly. It’s a story about lessons of hope learned on this long and difficult journey.
I’ve written before about my fellow grief traveler, Joe Hall. As a young man in his mid-twenties, he married his wife knowing she was dying. He’s an amazing young man.…
Following major loss, your mind seeks to come to grips with your new normal. The absence of the one loved creates a massive emotional hole—a vital missing piece—and phantom impulses…
“For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.” Romans 8:22 When you face loss, you realize the world groans awaiting…
I’ve observed grief now from numerous perspectives. Grief is like the proverbial onion with seemingly endless layers! Early lessons taught me that I could plan for mourning—protected set-apart daily time…
“He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 23:3 Kim and I started the youth group at our church, Movement Church, in…
“My perspective matured, informed less by pain and more by understanding.” Bob Terry, Struggling Toward Hope: Life After the Death of a Spouse Within the first few weeks following my…
There are no quick fixes to grief. Get used to it and embrace it. Settle in for a process and not an event. However, there are some key disciplines that…
“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” 1 Samuel 15:11 Ray Palmer, in “My Faith…
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 The…