Comments on: Ordinary Sadness https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/ Author of Healing Maddie Brees & Wait, thoughts and practices in waiting on God Wed, 09 Jun 2021 16:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Rebecca Brewster Stevenson https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2735 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 16:39:28 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2735 In reply to O’Keefe Susan.

Thanks so much for reading, Susan. I’m so glad this resonates with you. Love to you, too.

]]> By: O'Keefe Susan https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2734 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:28:59 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2734 Thank you for sharing your gifts and talents. As I read YOUR words, I felt they were MY words. To know that other moms FEEL your same feelings gives a stamp of approval and even fashions an invisible bond among all moms who experience this “ordinary sadness”. Much love, Susan

]]> By: Rebecca Brewster Stevenson https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2055 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:38:24 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2055 In reply to Michele Morin.

Thank you so much for reading Michele, and for the book title. I am passing it on and will look it up. 🙂

]]> By: Rebecca Brewster Stevenson https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2054 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:37:54 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2054 In reply to Carol Hoag.

I’m so glad it was helpful to you to read it, dear Carol. Thanks for getting me started. 🙂 Also, see the book Michele recommends in the next comment: Empty Nest, Full Life by Jill Savage. 🙂

]]> By: Rebecca Brewster Stevenson https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2053 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:37:03 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2053 In reply to Sonya.

Thanks so much for reading and for understanding, Sonya. You are so right: it’s a gift to miss those days. So grateful.

]]> By: Sonya https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2052 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:49:31 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2052 So beautiful, Rebecca. And so very true. I have often marveled at how such joy and sorrow can wash over me hand-in-hand. Joy over the lovely people they have become, the wonderful spouses God has given them, and the gifts they get to exercise daily in their jobs and lives. Yet sadness for the days left behind. I miss the snuggled-up reading times and the funny and cute questions. I miss so many things. And then I realize that it is a sweet gift even to miss those. It means that they were good years full of good things. Thank you for writing this.

]]> By: Carol Hoag https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2050 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:09:35 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2050 You are so gifted, dear sister in Christ. I was richly blessed by your ‘not writing’ on this subject. Yes, I’m moved to tears again, missing our sons, but deeply grateful for what the Lord has provided in & for them. And they do come back to visit. Bless you as you experience this viscerally with Emma away. Merry Christmas! Thank you for this gift that has helped me process more.

]]> By: Michele Morin https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2019/12/18/ordinary-sadness/#comment-2049 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:55:13 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/?p=7959#comment-2049 Beautiful, and I am with you in this celebration and lament. Also, I am reading Empty Nest, Full Life by Jill Savage-and finding it both soothing and challenging.

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