by Lauren | Aug 23, 2019 | Emotions, Spirituality
Merry and me, home again. It’s like dying. Drowning. A total eclipse of the sun. This time, without my baby, without my Marion, it’s the shock of a grief you don’t expect and can’t possibly be prepared to receive. You stagger under the blow....
by Lauren | Nov 5, 2018 | Emotions, Nutrition, Spirituality
Months. Months of waiting, praying, and pushing through the motions of caring for my child. Months, and mountains moved. The growth, birth and first several months of my daughter’s life threw my mental state into chaos. I was so out of balance during the...
by Lauren | Jan 5, 2018 | Spirituality
Today, tomorrow and long ago, God provides food for the people He loves. The people are stranded in the desert. No food. Worried that they’ll starve. So every day on their lunch break, God rains bread down from the sky, enough to feed them and their families...
by Lauren | Jul 17, 2017 | Spirituality
You’re trucking along, minding your own business and feeling like you’ve got a handle on life. Then, when you least expect it, mist descends on a bend in the road. Your sense of security evaporates, and you hover on the brink of the unknown. My journey...
by Lauren | Feb 17, 2017 | Community, Spirituality
Over the last 5 months, I searched for a new blog name that would be simple, memorable and convey the holistic healing that is changing my life. A Google search for “nos cura,” Spanish for “heals us,” gave me a hit for BibleGateway’s...
by Lauren | Sep 19, 2016 | Emotions, Nutrition, Spirituality
For years, I have been in the Valley of Achor. Sandstorms. Mirages. Heatstroke. Hosea can relate. Hosea lives a crummy life. His wife, Gomer, is a prostitute whom he has to repeatedly bring back home after she has a wild night on the town. Gomer is just like...