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Rachelle Antoine

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  • Grief Letters: Week 21, Grief Made Beautiful

    Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” Over the last few weeks, I have shared parts of me that feel raw and vulnerable. I wrote blogs when… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 19, Where Grief & Hope Meet

    Habakkuk 2:3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. Today’s Grief letter is another spoken word I wrote. One birthed out of what seems like a vision of God preparing me… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 18,Grief that turns away

    Malachie 3:14, ” You have said , ” It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking in mourning before the Lord of Hosts?” This week, I want share a rather honest journal entry of my grief. To share about one of my biggest grievances- being… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 17, Good Grief

    Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of face the heart is made glad. So often grief has been in my eyes a negative thing. yet, as the above verse notes it is for some good- for it makes the heart glad. In my last post, I wrote about godly grief… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 15, The Grief of The War I Wage

    Romans 7:21-23 So I find it to be a law, that whenI want to do right, evil lies close at hand.For I delight int he law of God in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 14, The Grief I carry

    Matthew 13:52 And he said to them, ” Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure, what is new and what is old.” Have you ever heard of the phrase that the pen is mightier than the sword?… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 12, Grieving The Words They said

    Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Words… There was popular phrase as kids we would say in the 90s, ” sticks and stone may break my bones but words would never hurt… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 9, The Grief for the Lost

    Romans 10:1-2 ” Brothers My hearts desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.” First Some Context Paul is known as an apostle called by God to share the gospel to Gentiles. Gentiles are… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 6, The Grief of Losing Me

    Then Jesus told his disciples, ” If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. for whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Matthew 16:24-25 Losing to Find There is a saying that states,… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 5, The Grief of Being a Christian

    He was despised and rejected by men: a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces. He was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried out sorrows; yet. we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God ,and afflicted. Isaiah 53: 3-4… Read.