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About D. Ray Davis
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.
Sundial Mottos are Solemn for a Reason

Sundial Mottos are Solemn for a Reason

Posted by By D. Ray Davis September 12, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized2 Comments
If you focus your attention on time itself, you will clearly see that it is slipping away. Eternity is in our hearts for a reason. And sundials are solemn for…
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A Christian Widower Contemplates Intimacy Lost and Intimacy Gained

A Christian Widower Contemplates Intimacy Lost and Intimacy Gained

Posted by By D. Ray Davis September 5, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized4 Comments
Yes, I’m going there. Put on your seatbelt. Candidly, I’ve had some of these thoughts since this Christian man married a beautiful Christian woman in 1983. I was reluctant to…
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Guard Against the Tendency Toward Self-Centered Faith

Guard Against the Tendency Toward Self-Centered Faith

Posted by By D. Ray Davis August 29, 2022Posted inFeatured, UncategorizedNo Comments
“Jesus suffered ‘not that we might not suffer,’ wrote George MacDonald, ‘but that our sufferings might be like his.’” Elizabeth Elliot, The Path of Loneliness Let’s be honest and transparent…
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Condole Before You Console

Condole Before You Console

Posted by By D. Ray Davis August 22, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized6 Comments
“There is immeasurable comfort in the revealing that the Son of God suffers with us in our suffering, is afflicted in all our affliction, is touched with the feeling of…
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Honoring God Through Loss

Honoring God Through Loss

Posted by By D. Ray Davis August 15, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized2 Comments
The week Kim died, I said to several people around me that I did not want to dishonor Kim or God in the way I responded to loss. In time,…
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Accepting, Avoiding, Embracing, or Engulfing Grief

Accepting, Avoiding, Embracing, or Engulfing Grief

Posted by By D. Ray Davis August 8, 2022Posted inFeatured, UncategorizedNo Comments
“We should never forget that redemption, the world’s greatest blessing, is the fruit of the world’s greatest sorrow.” J. R. Miller, The Ministry of Comfort In Be Still, My Soul,…
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A Twentieth Anniversary Lesson to Pass on from Mr. Robinson

A Twentieth Anniversary Lesson to Pass on from Mr. Robinson

Posted by By D. Ray Davis August 1, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized6 Comments
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have…
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My Anniversary of Gratitude

My Anniversary of Gratitude

Posted by By D. Ray Davis July 25, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized2 Comments
If you determine to face your loss, torturous grief will begin to show up as delightful gratitude. After all, as J. R. Miller states in The Ministry of Comfort, “...love…
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Lingerie: A Painful Contemplation

Lingerie: A Painful Contemplation

Posted by By D. Ray Davis July 18, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized20 Comments
I'm going to be careful, I promise. You didn’t think I was going to talk about such delicate topics. Did you? Well, grief forces a lot of decisions, topics, and…
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Helpful Sermon Notes in a Drawer

Helpful Sermon Notes in a Drawer

Posted by By D. Ray Davis July 11, 2022Posted inFeatured, Uncategorized6 Comments
As time progressed, I needed to wade through a few more boxes and drawers of memories. I was cleaning house and saving important stuff. Stuff may just seem like stuff,…
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