Faith and Doubt

How are we doing?I think we’re doing fairly well. We’re keeping busy during the day, working to find new homes for Elli’s equipment and supplies, sort out the life insurance questions, figure out how to get the van back that we drove 5 hours away for a conversion (fortunately they hadn’t started yet), and choose…

Elli’s grandma and aunt read this poem at Elli’s memorial service. It was sent to us by a friend, from another friend who had lost a child recently. It expresses well the way we understand parenthood — that we are stewards of the children in our families, not their owners, and that God gives them…

My dad shared the following at Elli’s memorial service. I asked him for permission to share it here because I so appreciated what he had to say. In the 9th chapter of John’s gospel, the apostle records the disciple’s question about a blind man’s blindness. Like many today, they assumed that bad things happened to…

This was written and shared by my husband at tonight’s memorial service for our daughter Elli. As always, he wrote and spoke beautifully. Elli was so blessed to have such a man for her earthly father. I miss you, Elli. The sound of your voice is still fresh in the house. I can almost still…

Tonight we celebrated Elli’s life at a memorial service in her honor. We have been carried along by the love and prayers of so many friends, family members, and total strangers who have heard our daughter’s story and been touched by her. I don’t know for sure how many came, but our best guess is…