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Rachelle Antoine

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Tag: grief

  • Grief Letters: Week 49,Facing Me

    Ephesians 4:22 You were taught , with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires’ to be made new in the attitude in your minds, and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 42, An Awakening

    1 Samuel 2:8, “The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up.7 The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts. Raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor. What if I am exactly who 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 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 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 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 20, For the Good and the Bad

    Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” If its not good, its not done One thing I am finding out is that the verse above, is so true. God works all things out for our good- 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.