Tag: Jeb

What Parents Wished You Knew About the Grief of Losing a Child

I was added to a “Loss of a child” support group right after Jeb’s funeral. I don’t post a lot there because that’s not how I process this, but it regularly appears in my newsfeed because it’s a local group to where we used to live and I think there’s some algorithm that helps that …

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This is Our Grief

This image floored me. How could something as complex as the grief of having a child ripped away weeks before his 15th birthday be conveyed so astutely?

Our Year in Review

2023 was the hardest year of our life. Here’s to better days.

God Is Good T-Shirts Are Here!

When a good friend’s beloved wife was dying from cancer, then 13-year-old Jeb pulled him to the side and said, “Uncle Gary, God is good.” He said, “Jeb, this sucks.” Jeb nodded and said, “Yes, but God is good…even when it sucks.” We didn’t know this story until a little over a year later when …

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Our Christmas Letter

Our Christmas letter

Not Alone in the Fire

We recently went back to the Fort Knox area for the first time since our son Johnathan (Jeb)’s memorial service. We visited his Taekwondo Master (where he earned his black belt), visited his youth group leader, we stayed with friends whose children and our boys were good friends and spent hours and hours playing and …

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