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Teri’s dance with grief actually began over five years before she watched her beloved husband of almost 37 years take his last breath and enter Heaven’s door on October 6, 2019. A terminal degenerative neurological disease steadily and increasingly attacked nearly every major system of his body and transformed him from a vibrant, brilliant, strong and caring man to a bedfast invalid at the end. She was devoted to caring for him and doing her best to make the most of every minute they had left, to love him and pray for a miracle.

She thought she knew what her future held, but she had no idea. Losing him was the first time she experienced a close and personal loss. He was the love of her life. The onslaught of the pandemic with its reign of fear-mongering, forced isolation and separation entering the scene and disrupting or destroying whatever sense of “normal” that remained, just added insult to injury.

Her faith in God is the sustaining force keeping her fighting spirit to find and share hope in a bright future. Her heart’s desire is to walk beside her fellow widows toward a path of promise and healing. She wants to offer encouragement and hope so others can find the strength to take that next breath or next step. She recently started her own blog, https://widowwhispers.blogspot.com/, to share with other widows not only the struggles and hardships of widowhood, but the triumphs. Her hope is found in leaning on the Lord Jesus to enjoy a God inspired future anchored in expectation He will bring us to a fulfilling and meaningful life.

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Holiday Hearts

by Teri Miner in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
November 18, 2024
Holiday stress may already be tugging on your mind, heart and emotions as we come to what most people find to be a very important time of the year. The television is promoting deals and Christmas movies as they seek ...
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Road to God Given Purpose

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
October 18, 2024October 20, 2024
One of the most challenging impacts of becoming a widow is having what we defined as our purpose become suddenly changed because it was intertwined with our covenantal relationship with our husband. Our marriage made us one, so our purpose ...
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Imagine That…

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
October 2, 2024October 19, 2024
When God created the heavens and the earth, He imagined a world where He would create human beings in His image to be His family. Possibly the dearest fingerprint of God in us is our ability to imagine. God’s gift of ...
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Music Heals

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
September 2, 2024September 2, 2024
There’s no one size fits all solution for coping with grief for widows. There is, however, one thing that is so versatile it will likely be something nearly every widow can benefit from. I’m talking about music. The right music ...
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Fragile

by Teri Miner in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
August 21, 2024August 30, 2024
How many times have you felt like your heart is so fragile as we go through our metamorphosis on this journey as a widow? It’s been nearly five years for me, yet new loss continues to tear open wounds I ...
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Endurance to Perseverance

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
August 4, 2024August 4, 2024
God is clear in the Bible we can expect challenges. Endurance is not giving up. It is choosing to continue moving no matter the hardships. How many of us once thought grief was a temporary condition? Who among us once ...
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Relentless

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
July 20, 2024
One of the things I hate about grief is how relentless it can be. I’ve learned so much in the four and half years my husband is a resident of Heaven instead of here with me. God keeps sustaining me ...
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Encourage Yourself

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
July 6, 2024July 6, 2024
The stresses and trials of being a widow can really test our faith. It’s the hard times and difficult situations this life brings that show us the strength of our conviction to trust God, or reveal our lack of understanding ...
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God’s Love

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
June 22, 2024June 23, 2024
Father God created us as unique and diverse people with intricate needs. We are not just people with physical needs. We have a physical body we must attend to, but the fullness of our life is just as dependent on ...
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Companions

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
June 8, 2024
Everything changes when you are stripped of your life partner. Nearly every widow feels desperately alone in spite of the fact losing a spouse is almost a universal experience. There is no way to prepare for the devastating impact this ...
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