by Ali Kennedy | Feb 25, 2024 | Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Maturing Faith, Fuel Up Fridays, Lent/Easter
“Oh no, broken mommy, broken!” My son recently discovered that when you throw something on the floor and it breaks, it needs fixing. It is not difficult to identify a broken toy or a broken toilet, but when it comes to our spiritual lives, we often fail to...
by Ali Kennedy | Apr 11, 2022 | Fuel for Grief, Lent/Easter
Up until several years ago, we did not have a practice of marking “Holy Week” — the events that led up to the Easter celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Growing up, we just went straight to the good part — Easter! That is not a bad thing. But looking...
by Ali Kennedy | Nov 30, 2021 | Advent/Christmas, Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Maturing Faith
I had always known (in theory) that the holiday season was a difficult time for many. But it wasn’t until I experienced the loss of a loved one myself that I really understood what it meant. I faced head on the painful collision of a grief-stricken heart with...
by Ali Kennedy | Nov 16, 2021 | Fuel for Coaching, Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Maturing Faith
I sat next to my friend, who was grieving the recent loss of her mother. I yearned to produce some magic words that would make her pain go away. But since I have been through a similar experience myself, all I could do was put my arm around her and weep quietly...
by Ali Kennedy | Apr 8, 2021 | Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Parenting, Lent/Easter
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here...
by Ali Kennedy | Apr 19, 2019 | Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Maturing Faith, Lent/Easter
“Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple,...
