And Life Comes Back: A Wife's Story of Love, Loss, and Hope Reclaimed by Williford Tricia Lott

Author:Williford, Tricia Lott [Williford, Tricia Lott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307731999
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2014-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Ungratefulness creeps in silently. It masks itself as a helpful critic, one who sees quickly how things might be changed or improved, rather than finding joy and thankfulness for the way things are. A few years ago, after we had been married for seven or eight years, I came to terms with an ugliness in me: that root of ungratefulness.

I needed to change my thinking; I needed a new discipline. I bought a new journal, and I began to list things I was thankful for. I chose one particular genre: Robb.

For two years I wrote something each day. I claimed something to be thankful for, a reason to smile over him. This discipline proved especially effective and particularly challenging during our rough days of disconnectedness, our harder seasons of living parallel instead of unified. I began writing, one page at a time, until it was complete. Here are some pages from the journal.

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