Adjusting to life without my son was difficult. The first months were especially hard. Three months after Jacob died, we were faced with Christmas and New Years. The following is a letter I wrote to family and friends on New Year’s Eve 2006. Dear Family and Friends, Michael, Raleigh and I recently returned from our [...]
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New Beginnings
Posted in Comforting the Grieving, death of a son, God's Goodness In the Midst of Pain, Grieving During the Holidays, Hope, Life After Death, New Year, The Early Days, The Grief Process, The Hope of Heaven, The nearness of God, Touches From Heaven, tagged comforting a mother who has lost a child, comforting those who grieve, coping with death, death of a child, death of a son, effect of time on grief, first Christmas after death, grief and the holidays, Grieving During the Holidays, heaven, hope for the future, how to help when a child has died, Jacob Nyenhuis, Life After Death, loss of a child, miracles, Sandy Nyenhuis blog, son's death on February 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Saying Goodbye To Another Member of the Glynn Academy Class of ’06
Posted in death of a son, Hope, New Year, The Early Days, tagged car accident, coping with death, death of a child, death of a son, grief, Jacob Nyenhuis, loss of a child, Michael Warren, Sandy Nyenhuis, Sandy Nyenhuis blog, shock on January 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
With Spring 2006 upon us, my son, Jacob, was excited for his senior year to come to an end. Graduation was only a couple of months away. One day, he said with a sense of pride and wonder, “Mom, can you believe our class is the first in several years to reach graduation without anyone [...]
Hope For A New Year
Posted in Grieving During the Holidays, Hope, New Year, The Early Days, The Hope of Heaven, Welcome To Journey Of Grief ~ Journey Of Grace, tagged Christmas and grief, dreams, holiday grief, Hope, hope for the future, Life goes on, loss of a child, New Year, processing grief through writing, son's death, Writing to heal. therapeutic writing on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a new year waits just around the bend, I can’t help but think of the many hopes and dreams I have for 2010. I’ll get to those in just a moment, but first I want to mention what it was like for me on the first New Year’s Eve without Jacob, my 18-year-old son [...]
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