Introduction:
Whether you’re new to Delight of my Life or have been following since the beginning, I want to introduce to to my new page and invite you to join the conversation.
The goal of my blog is “creating community around an honest journey through the joy and grief of life.” Blog topics include Child loss and Grief; Attachment Theory in Parenting; Mental Health; Christian Theology and Ministry; Veterinary Medicine; and Community Stories.
Why a blog anyway?
After my daughter Tirzah was stillborn at 40 weeks on August 20, 2014, I began writing “Dear Tirzah” letters. I believe these letters were true communication with her; that she can see me and hear me from Heaven. These letters became a source of healing for my broken heart.
I decided to dedicate a blog to Tirzah, using the meaning of her name, which is “delight of my life.” I wanted to share my own journey of grief, in order to help other women grieve, and help people understand how to support their friends and family through loss.
Over the past three years of walking this grief journey, I’ve found that *grief expands* and *trauma begets trauma*. Loosing a child is so life-shattering that it has a ripple effect that goes far beyond only the initial trauma of death. Therefore, my blog has grown to include other topics of trauma, mental health and parenting.
You may find this to be different then other “loss communities” that zero in on the topic of grief. My writing will address many peripheral topics, that will be relevant to many other people as well.
My hope is that my writing and the community formed around this blog will be a blessing and life-giving. I hope that together we will learn how to better listen, better suffer, and each grow in knowing our own story, and therefore where we need kindness, repentance, and freedom.
What can I expect?
My plan is to increase my posting, hopefully to 3 times a week. I hope to have a predictable rhythm to posts: starting with a post on prayer at the beginning of the week, midweek featuring a community story, and on the weekend posting on a main category topic (grief, mental health, theology, etc).
How can I join?
You can follow my blog and get my posts in your email! I welcome comments and feedback to my posts!
I want to grow a community section. I eagerly desire your questions, and stories! I have a blog email: catherine@delightofmylife.com. Please submit stories of child loss, grief, trauma, joy, goodness and blessing… anything in your life journey! You can request your post to be anonymous, and I will not post anything without your approval first.
A friend suggested that I have a veterinary category to my blog! Besides a Jesus follower, a wife, mother, and blogger, I am a veterinarian!! I love the idea of writing in this category, because I do love this field, but am not currently working. Please help me keep my passion alive, and submit your pet questions or stories!
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Looking forward to more blogging from you! And I am so glad you added a vet component to this. Thank you for sharing your life with us. May our Lord bless your efforts.
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I’m excited for all God will do through your ministry. Love you!
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Catherine, thank you for sharing your heart with me (so many). You do an incredible job of honoring God with this blog. Your blog is a beautiful example of what it looks like to grieve with hope. I am encouraged to trust in the sovereignty of God as I read about your precious daughter. It is clear that in and through the depths and lengths of your sorrow you never let go of Him – at every moment of your grief you turn to Him, not away from Him. Thank you for reminding me to choose faith instead of fear. “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
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Thank you Magaly, that is so touching!!
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