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Rachelle Antoine

just a creative sharing her thoughts

Tag: loss

  • 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 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 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 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.

  • Grief Letters: Week 4 , Grieving the comfortable & familiar me

    This week I wasn’t sure what to write. I felt off this week as we cross into the dead of winter with temperatures dropping below zero this week. It was cold to say the least and I felt it in my soul. This whole week I have felt a bit off, as if my mood Read.

  • Grief Letters : Week 1, Healing by Grief’s Release

    I have been avoiding grief like the plague; running away from my own pain. But what is that phrase, you can’t overcome something you can’t face? Well, grief has become familiar but I have not made it welcome. As if it had no place inside of my chest? As if my emotions didn’t know they Read.