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Rachelle Antoine

just a creative sharing her thoughts

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  • Grief Letters: Week 41,Friendships, Weariness & Weeping

    Psalm 12:1-2 Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.Everyone lies to their neighbor they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts jesus wept, I guess i could too Today I wept; the deep, guttural, snot nose type of weeping. I wept and wept until… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 40, Wrestling God & Questions

    Genesis 32:28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[f]because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” 🌱 Moving Forward Sometimes grief is realizing the only thing holding you back is you. There’s something deeply moving about recognizing that you are the one in charge of your life — that… Read.

  • Grief letters: Week 40, Beauty Born of Grief

    Isaiah 53:3 “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief…” The Beauty Born from Grief What if the most beautiful parts of me were born of grief—forged in the fire of deep suffering?What if deep love lies in the loneliest thing,only to be discovered where the hurt runs… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 39, Grace Over Judgment: Learning to Love Yourself as God Does

    James 2:13 Because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Recently, Grace Has Been on My Heart I’ve heard about God’s grace all my life in church, but I didn’t understand its value or magnitude until recently. In Week 36, I wrote about the familiar bad and… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 38, A Desire That Tarries

    Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord , and he will give you the desire of your heart When the Desire Still Remains Lately, I’ve desired marriage and kids. It’s no surprise to write this, as it’s something I’ve wanted for most of my life. However, I find myself struggling to pray about a future… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 37, The Grief of Ungratefulness

    1 Thessalonians 5:18, Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Reviewing my life You know that feeling when you’re new in a relationship — the anticipation, the excitement, the rush of dopamine from building something new and special? But as the relationship matures, things naturally… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 36, The Grief of the Familiar Bad

    John 12:24, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” The Familiar Bad & the Foreign Good One of the hardest things I’ve had to grieve recently is the things I’ve allowed in my life—whether… Read.

  • Grief Letters : Week 35, Finally Releasing Grief

    Philippians 2:13 “For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure” Reflecting on this Grief Journey In my first blog entry, I reference a line from a poem I wrote call Me. The line I reference was “”What if deep love lies in the loneliest of… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 34, The Grief of the Bummer Lamb

    John 10:27-28  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. What’s A Bummer LAmb I am not sure how I came across learning about the bummer lab. But while… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 33, Peace is not elusive

    Hebrew 12:11 “For the Moment too discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” God is not elusive As I was sitting at my desk spending time with God, I heard the phrase in my head God is not elusive.… Read.