Wrestling with Jacob

A journal of faith, grief and devotional musings

healing

  • A time to mourn and a time to dance

    I will be giving my only daughter (Jordan) away in marriage in a few weeks. We are so happy for them and it does my heart good to see her beautiful smile of anticipation for the wedding. Jordan lost her brother and grandmother 6 weeks apart about this time last year. In her deep grief I remember… Read more

  • Over it, around it, and through it

    Grieving the death of a child: You can’t get over it, you can’t get around it, you must go through it. When the funeral is over and the committal has taken place there is a silence we experience that is shocking and frightening. Life must go on, but how? Life changes in every way for the parents… Read more

  • Grief shared is grief diminished

    The trauma and grief that a parent experiences when a child dies is unique unto itself. It has its own zip code, its own language that cannot be understood by those who cannot speak the dialect. I am the father of Jacob Michael Fekete who died March 26, 2014, around 10 am that day I received… Read more