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The Gift of Memories, Triggers & Tears
Organic baby food, daily walks in the sunshine, nursery rhymes and Beatrix Potter books, baths and naps made up those days of that first year. I was proud and happy and oh-so-in-love. It seemed as if my whole life had been a waiting time for my motherhood to begin. Fast forward to the present, where I find myself in a journaling workshop series that Sacred Sorrows is offering for mothers who have lost a child. We reflect and journal about our grief and about our struggle to g

Christy Bronson
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The Healing Power of Writing
When I lost my son, Kevin, my life changed in an instant. He was suddenly gone, and I didn’t know how to cope. My background as a licensed clinical social worker taught me about many different life problems but it did not prepare me for this. I decided to learn all I could about grief to help myself and, eventually, other bereaved mothers. I knew I had to address the intense emotion - to "feel it to heal it". But where should one begin? I discovered writing and the expressive

Brenda Daly
Apr 303 min read
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Meltdown in the laundry room
It all started with a little end-of-year tidying up weirdness. I found a small container of Tide and remembered the last time it was used...

rita@sacredsorrows.org
Dec 31, 20243 min read
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Quiet Strength: Loving Someone Who Carries Grief
"If you ever get the chance to love a person who knows grief, do not let them go."

rita@sacredsorrows.org
Dec 3, 20241 min read
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The Holy Spirit and the Mystery of Grace
Collectively our hearts broke for our sister in sacred sorrow. As grieving mothers, we understand the terrible truth.

Cherra Savage
Jul 23, 20243 min read
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Remember the Dash
In the midst of our grief, remember the life that was lived. And the life that was loved.

Kendall Heaney
Jun 14, 20243 min read
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Using the china
Once upon a time (and what seems like only just yesterday), I was wandering the china and crystal section of Marshall Field's in Chicago.

rita@sacredsorrows.org
May 26, 20242 min read
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Mother's Day Looms
Much therapy and the discovery of Sacred Sorrows have helped me bind up my wounds and learn to trust Jesus again. Yet Mother's Day looms...
Irene Peterson
May 9, 20243 min read
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The Unforgettable Thing a Stranger Said When I Lost My Child
I couldn’t tell you what month it was, but there were daffodils, so it must have been spring. A few weeks after Alex died, I suppose.

Mavis Moon
Apr 23, 20245 min read
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In Times of Sadness
We feel great sadness at various times in our lives--illness, loss of a job, financial problems, death, and so on...

rita@sacredsorrows.org
Apr 16, 20242 min read
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Saint Patrick’s Windows into Grief (abridged)
Rather than false promises of ease and comfort, the stations of the cross direct us to the hope that comes from walking the way of suffering

Mavis Moon
Mar 19, 20247 min read
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A Blessing After A Loss
God, we are heartbroken
in the face of so much grief.
What could we possibly call blessed?

Mavis Moon
Feb 20, 20241 min read
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It's ashes to ashes, dust to dust day
Today is Ash Wednesday. How about moving from anything that might feel "off" and toward some semblance of what might feel "all right?"

rita@sacredsorrows.org
Feb 14, 20243 min read
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Life (and death) on the river
"Mom, staying in bed is dangerous too. I'd rather take some risks than die of depression. At least if I die on the river I will have lived."

Lani Bogart
Feb 6, 20242 min read
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In the Quiet, I Cry (Almost Always)
Originally posted Nov. 16, 2021. Out of nowhere, the familiar (but not always welcome) warm tears began to cascade down my face.

rita@sacredsorrows.org
Jan 30, 20243 min read
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It's BitterSweet
Seven years. Seven years later and I still don’t know whether I should be calling next weekend Ezra’s birthday or his death anniversary.

rita@sacredsorrows.org
Jan 24, 20243 min read
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Always there, forever a part of me
People say that grief comes in waves… sometimes you feel fine and others not.

A Sacred Sorrows Grieving Mother
Jan 16, 20242 min read
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The Prayer of a Righteous Man
Faith endures, but my address to God is uncomfortably, perplexingly, altered. I must explore The Lament as a mode for my address to God.

Mavis Moon
Jan 9, 20242 min read
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A retreat sunrise brings a miracle
So many unanswered questions I had brought along with me. The foremost question I had was, “How does a mother heal after losing a child?”

Diane Galloway
Jan 2, 20244 min read
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Laughing through the struggles: finding humor in the season's foibles
It's the 7th day of Christmas - and here I sit with my head quite a flutter, while amassed all around me is a large pile of clutter!

rita@sacredsorrows.org
Dec 31, 20232 min read
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