Category: Being a Widow

How Does Our Garden Grow?

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me—and I in him—bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. John 15:5 (NET) Without water, light and fertile soil seeds planted in a garden will soon wither and die. Water is needed to open the hard shell so the seed can germinate…

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God Sees, God Cares, God Restores

I don’t like the word “widow” at all. It’s depressing. It brings to mind women who have lost their zeal for life or who have lost their “status” for life. Often, when a woman becomes a widow or divorced, that is exactly how she feels; among a myriad of other feelings. However…please read on…there is…

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Doing Life Alone…A Widow’s Perspective

When I became a widow at 54 years of age, my world as I had known it for 17 years had ended. Though my husband had been ill for 9 years, I lived in denial that one day the cancer would catch up with him and he would no longer be able to fight it….

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