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Rachelle Antoine

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  • Grief Letters: Week 32, 5 Lessons from God & Grief

    Here’s what I have learned about God through my grief so far this year: 1.God deeply cares about every wound in you and wants to heal you I have been wrong to assume God wants obedience void of the heart’s condition. Its as if I imagined God wanting me to robotically do what he says… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 29, Meeting with God

    Psalm 84:10, For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Meeting God In this blog, I have learned a lot. But this past few weeks, I have been bogged down with a… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 27, The Grief of Never Being in a Relationship

    Proverbs 13: 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life Week 7 of these grief letters, I wrote about singleness. In that blog, I go in depth how my background and cultural context affected my view of dating. That is a good article to read to understand… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 25, Discoveries in Grief

    Acts 20:24, But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. Discovering Identity One thing that I have found interesting in… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 24 Releasing Grief

    Isaiah 43:19 Behold I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? Be still & KNOw In the last few days, I have been given a clarity about what to do next. In my last post, I wrote about being in a unknown place and feeling the discomfort of… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 23, Grief Be Still

    Psalm 46:10, Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! Have you ever been on a walk with no headphones? Just you surrounded by nature? I found myself taking a break from listening to an audiobook to just pause. I felt… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 22, The Grief of Life

    John 16:33, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have trouble. But take heart, I have overcome the world.” Not always a trial… But today’s topic is something that I haven’t fully processed. but it feel necessary to write about. I became a… Read.

  • 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.