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Do you live defined by the circumstances you face? Or are you defined by the hope in everything good God has planned for you?

HOPE DEFINED is more than a handbook on how to deal with loss. It’s an intimate and honest look into how this woman trusted God after the suicide of her mother, what she came to learn as a result, and what we all can learn from her.

“Loss can be a permanent wound that grows and festers or it can scar over and serve as a reminder, you made it!”

Grief is a strange thing. It's like your life is a record with a scratch in it. It's stuck on one spot, skipping back replaying the one line over and over again. It's like being in a sci-fi movie. You are not functioning in the same space and time as the rest of the world. The experience is vast, unpredictable, personal and yet universal. There are five text book stages to grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I trudged through every single stage, revisiting each several times over. The words are not elaborate enough for how I felt when in the throes of each. I felt broken