Wrestling with Jacob

A journal of faith, grief and devotional musings

remembering

  • Never Forgotten

    Remembering When I was younger I never gave thought to my legacy and how I would be remembered after death. Now that I am beyond mid-life I think of it quite often and am reminded that each day I live is a day that might be shared in my eulogy. We want to remember the Read more

  • Trouble in River Cityk

    Every day is memorial day for me and my family. I wrote the following the day before Jacob died and thought I would re-post it. We texted back and forth that day about the words to a song he sang in his lead role in the Music Man. It has been a tough stretch of Read more

  • Precious memories: Grief and comfort during the holidays

    I don’t believe for a minute that time heals all wounds. I never heard of a parent who got over the death of their child. Read more