When someone is going through a burdened time, it can mean many things and sometimes you might be unsure of how to help. One thing is for certain, they need to eat. They may be too emotionally or physically burdened to be able to make their own dinner, or even too busy to make a… Continue reading Home Cooked Meals to Bless a Burdened Family
Just in case you have no idea what a meal train is, I’ll give a quick definition. The family, or someone designated to help the family, coordinates dates and times for their community to bring them a meal. When I was pregnant with my kids, somebody set up a meal train for us. Back then… Continue reading Blessing a Burdened Family by Setting up a Meal Train
One thing every human being has in common is that we all need to eat. I don’t know about you but I am terrible at having meals planned. It’s 5 p.m. and the kids say they’re hungry and I try to come up with something that isn’t pizza again. Or I might have a plan… Continue reading Blessing a Burdened Family with Food
Sometimes as friends we are afraid to bring up the burden. We don’t want to bring up a hard conversation that we dont know how to address. Or we might not want to stir up emotions, if they dont want to talk about it. A simple way to know and bless them is just ask.… Continue reading Bless a Burdened Family by Asking About Their Burden
Whatever your burden is, the moment it hits, you can feel very alone. In some instances, you can’t think of anyone else who is in that same boat and you feel a little helpless. That’s how I felt when our son was diagnosed with cancer. I didn’t have any friends who had kids with cancer. It’s… Continue reading Bless a Burdened Family by Sharing Your Experience
It can be so easy to be overcome by darkness, to believe lies, when you are in a burdened season. You can hear bad news and quickly jump to all the what if’s, and just that simple you are overcome with even more grief. That is why it is important for friends and family to… Continue reading Share Truth to Bless a Burdened Family
I believe the best thing you can do for a family, especially one that is experiencing any type of burden, is pray. When people say they are praying for me, I don’t know if they realize, but I feel and know that that is a big gift. We serve a big God. He cares, he… Continue reading Pray for a Burdened Family
I used to feel kind of useless, when a friend experienced a burden, especially with something that I had no experience. How could I really help when I had no comprehension of what they were going through? What could I say? My mind went blank and I felt that I would be no help. Sometimes… Continue reading Be There to Bless a Burdened Family
In January of this year, my son was diagnosed with cancer. It turned our world upside down and all of a sudden we were living day to day. Because of the aggressiveness of the cancer, we had to get treatments started right away. Every week from January 1 through the end of July, we had… Continue reading Introduction to Blessing a Burdened Family
If you asked me what I like to do in my free time, my first answer would be reading. I LOVE books! They offer so many things to me: a greater vocabulary, knowledge, adventure to places I’ve never been, and meeting people I’d never met. I like to read a bit of non-fiction and fiction and… Continue reading September 2016: What I’m Reading
