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the cultivation of spiritual complaint

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#52 My ALS Journey—The Electronic Dilemma
ALS / Family / Grief / Jesus / Lou Gehrig's Disease / Outings / Susan's Steps

#52 My ALS Journey—The Electronic Dilemma

February 15, 2025February 15, 2025

  It’s a good reminder here that my mother rarely asked for help. She was highly independent, and even throughout her diagnosis, I was called to come to […]

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#51 My ALS Journey—Rule 15: Be a Crusader & Know Your Disease
ALS / Family / Grief / Jesus / Lou Gehrig's Disease / Outings / Susan's Steps

#51 My ALS Journey—Rule 15: Be a Crusader & Know Your Disease

February 15, 2025February 15, 2025

Almost every post I add to this blog guts me. Of course, I miss my mother, but I am also overwhelmed with the sweet gifts her life continues […]

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#53 My ALS Journey—My Anniversary Date
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#53 My ALS Journey—My Anniversary Date

February 15, 2025February 15, 2025

“Lady, that’s where Jasper is. He’s in the green house over there!” I’m driving with my just six-year-old granddaughter, Selena, and I strain to turn my head to […]

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#50 My ALS Journey—Well Deserved Tantrum
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#50 My ALS Journey—Well Deserved Tantrum

January 11, 2025February 15, 2025

I am very sorry indeed to hear that anxieties again assail you. (By the way, don’t ‘weep inwardly’ and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: […]

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"Life is unspeakably sad until you recover the lost language of lament. Then it becomes 'speakably' sad and an authentic journey into His presence begins."

Larry Crabb, quoted in A Sacred Sorrow by Michael Card

Welcome to Sweet Speakable Sorrow! If you are here, you may wonder why anyone would want to think about grief or suffering, let alone talk about it. Yet, God is a God who hears us in our sorrow and longs for us to bring our complaints to Him. Sweet Speakable Sorrow is a home where I learned, as taught to me by my mother, to appreciate and cultivate the language of sorrow and give it back to God in praise.

  • #52 My ALS Journey—The Electronic Dilemma
  • #51 My ALS Journey—Rule 15: Be a Crusader & Know Your Disease
  • #53 My ALS Journey—My Anniversary Date
  • #50 My ALS Journey—Well Deserved Tantrum
  • #49 My ALS Journey—Yesterday vs. Today

"Life is unspeakably sad until you recover the lost language of lament. Then it becomes 'speakably' sad and an authentic journey into His presence begins."

Larry Crabb, quoted in A Sacred Sorrow by Michael Card

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