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There are some truths we do not discover because something is missing. We discover them because something beautiful arrives. For more than twenty years, I have been a caregiver to my son. Even as I write those words, they do not feel entirely accurate. Because I never chose caregiving. I chose my son. More than…
Why Do We Wait? There is something life has taught me that no clock, calendar, or planner ever could. Time is not measured linearly. We count life in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. But our hearts do not. Some moments last only seconds and remain with us forever. Some years pass and leave…
I had been sitting on my couch reading Scripture and praying for a dear friend battling illness. I was searching through the New Testament looking for healing.Restoration.Promises.Hope. You know… those verses you cling to when somebody you love is hurting and you just want something solid to stand on. My Bible was open in my…
There is something almost comical about reaching a certain age and realizing the older generation was not, in fact, trying to ruin our fun. They were trying to shorten our suffering. And yet there we were, giving them the same polite little nod every younger generation has given wisdom since the beginning of time: “Yeah,…
There are losses that stop the world…and then, there are losses where the world keeps moving anyway. Children still need breakfast.The dog still needs out.Bills still need paid.Phones still ring.Laundry still piles up.Appointments still come.Dinner still needs made. Yet, somewhere in the middle of all of that, a heart breaks. This is the grief many…
Are Your Choices Being Shaped By What You Needed Then… or What You Need Now? There was a time in my life when I didn’t know the difference. Not between right and wrong.Not between good and bad. But between living from myself…and living from something deeper. I thought I had a good heart… and honestly,…
The cost it carries for everyone involved There are things you only come to understand with time.Not theory.Not assumption.But lived, layered experience. And after decades of watching, serving, and at times being placed in positions I was not yet ready to carry… I can say this plainly: One of the quiet struggles within faith communities…
Compassion Doesn’t Cancel Impact—Even When It Wasn’t Intentional I didn’t grow up thinking anything was wrong. I just thought I was good at reading people. Good at knowing when to speak… and when not to.Good at sensing a shift before it became something bigger.Good at keeping things calm, steady, manageable. I didn’t have language for…
People spend a lot of time dreaming. Dreaming about who they want to be.Where they want to be.What kind of life they hope to live. They think about the career, the peace, the confidence, the stability. The home they’d love to have. The person they wish they could become. Sometimes the dreams are big, sometimes…
We talk about Friday.We celebrate Sunday. But Saturday…Saturday is where most of us live. The pause.The breath held.The moment where nothing makes sense yet. I imagine that day wasn’t peaceful.I imagine it was a quiet wrestling. Faith on one side.Fear on the other. He was gone.They had seen it.They had felt it. And yet… they…
Tina N. Campbell
Centerville, Ohio 45459
echoesofgrace66@gmail.com
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