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Rachelle Antoine

just a creative sharing her thoughts

Tag: life

  • 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 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 31, To My Father

    Psalm 68:5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. Dear Dad I am writing this letter to you because if I stood before you I don’t think I would be able to speak what I am about to write. I am not even sure what I am about Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 28, The Grief of Running Away

    Proverbs 28:1 “ The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.“ Losing MArgin I haven’t written in the last 2 weeks and part of that is not because I can’t but I haven’t made space. So much is occurring and I realized I haven’t given myself enough space 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 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 16, Godly Grief & Worldly Grief

    2 Corinthians 7:10 ” For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief leads to death.” Writing My Fears I feel like am running from writing these entries. And I find it odd, how at first it was easy to post each week. but with every week, I feel Read.

  • Grief Letters :Week 13:The Grief of Losing Friends & Rediscovering Self

    Proverbs 18:24 “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” CAN I BE HONEST? I ask this because it feels like it gives me the liberty to write freely. I am keenly aware of the will I have, but I still struggle to Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 10, Grieving my 20’s

    Psalm 90:10a, 12 “The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty… So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” I find it funny that as kids we long to be adults and as adults we wonder what we were rushing into in Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 8, Reflections on Grief

    Revelations 12:11 And they overcame by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto the death. Today marks week 8 of writing grief letters. If you’re new here, go back to week 1 to find out why I am writing them. Since today marks Read.