by Kimberly Pelletier | Mar 8, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief
I found this sermon on the internet yesterday. I had never heard it before, preached by the pastor of Church of the Resurrection out in D.C., not the one we attend. He heard of Jonan’s story last year and asked us if he could use his story in his sermon on...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Jan 29, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief
Forever will Jan. 26thbe a most tender of days for me. The day Jonan Eilam was born. Sacrosanct. Never will that day pass without me breathing a bit more deeply; looking around at the world with a sober appreciation for life…and for the presence of God which...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Jan 26, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief, Soul Formation
(Throughout this post I have linked to posts from last year about Jonan and the journey we were on, they are in pink. If you have time please read the links as we remember Jonan and honor God, the One who gave us his life). How precious a birth-day. An October...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Jan 18, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief, Soul Formation
What a joy to name a human being. What a responsibility! As we pondered many names for this coming little lady we did, as some other parents probably do, run it through the “junior high make-fun-of-me name list”. We ruled out names that could have a nickname...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Sep 17, 2011 | Chronicles of Grief
As of late I have been considering why the life and death of our son was a doorway to such things that could seem, at first step, antithetical to such an experience. Healing, joy, gratitude…things like that. Seems like the wrong doorway to those types of things....
by Kimberly Pelletier | Jul 19, 2011 | Chronicles of Grief
It was just weeks after Jonan died. I called a friend who lost a baby too soon many years earlier. I was lying on my bed crying telling her I am not sure I can have another. I mean, I want to. But what if I get weird. Like, I love Jonan more? Or I have a new baby...
