Grief is the price we pay for love. —Queen Elizabeth II My best friend was dead. My faith was shattered. It was too much for me. I felt that I, too, was dying. I desperately needed a breakthrough—a sign, if you will, that she was safe. The thoughts of her being smashed against a mountain [...]
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Bringing Light into a Dark Place: Joining Inmates in Overcoming Hopelessness
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December 7, 2009
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I have been in and out of jail for well over a year. I’m not there because I’ve broken a law or violated probation. I visit the barb wired facility to bring hope into a very dark place. It’s part of my healing process after losing my best friend six years ago in a plane [...]
Does Grief End? It Takes Grace and Guts to Forgive
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August 21, 2009
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Grace & Guts: What It Takes to Forgive is a book about a topic I have gone to terrific lengths to avoid. This book is not for those ultra-pious Christians who declare that of course we must forgive those who’ve hurt us because that’s what we’re called to do, period, so do it already. It’s not [...]
‘We Must Not Insist That God Do Things Our Way’
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April 21, 2009
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By Barbara Francis — We all need to be asking God to enlarge our hearts to himself and to others and to increase our trust that he will work in his way in his time. We must not insist that God do things our way, and we can only humbly bow before the fact that [...]
Can Your Faith Survive a Terrible Loss?
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May 6, 2008
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Writer Barbara Francis describes her spiritual struggle after the death of a close friend.
