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Meander through these honest stories of grief/loss, anger, hope, and transformation. Maybe you'll see your reflection and hope will appear where you hadn't noticed her before.

On Why I Have Been Silent Here

by Kimberly Pelletier | Dec 6, 2017 | 0 Comments

I always feel slightly embarrassed when someone asks for my website because its been quiet here...I mean I haven't written here since May! Let me tell you why. You may have noticed the world is, well, a bit noisy. I mean, forget our closets and garages...there is so...

Noticing Transformation Moments Part 3: A New Way

by Kimberly Pelletier | May 12, 2017 | 0 Comments

Last year I began this series on Noticing Transformational Moments. I wrote about Part 1: Awareness and Part 2: Acceptance. They are longer than my normal posts and would be used as great morning quiet time / meditation material. The response to these was more than I...

The Welcome of What Is

by Kimberly Pelletier | Apr 27, 2017 | 0 Comments

Today I have the privilege of writing over at the Mudroom! I encourage you to head over, there are so many talented and beautiful souls writing on the nitty gritty of real life I can all but guarantee you will find yourself in their words. There are many rhythms...

The How (and Why) of Slowing Down

by Kimberly Pelletier | Apr 6, 2017 | 0 Comments

Friends! I am alive. I mean several things from this, but first and foremost, I am actually alive and breathing and thankful to be. The past four months have been everything I never expected, have you ever had a season like that? I expected to be writing here,...

A Funeral Sermon at Christmas

by Kimberly Pelletier | Dec 14, 2016 | 0 Comments

[REPOST: This was originally posted on my previous blog in December of 2014 for the one-year anniversary of my grandfather's death. The response has been so overwhelming over the years I am posting it again this Advent season.] This is the sermon I wrote for and...

Advent Poem Performance

by Kimberly Pelletier | Dec 10, 2016 | 0 Comments

Reclaim Your Soul

by Kimberly Pelletier | Dec 4, 2016 | 0 Comments

Welcome to my new website! It seems appropriate to launch during Advent (the season in which we await the Christ child’s birth), as this is a long-awaited birth for me. To get us started, I want to give you a flavor of this site by telling you about a disaster of a...

How To Get Gratitude All Wrong This Thanksgiving

by Kimberly Pelletier | Nov 19, 2016 | 0 Comments

November, for all intents and purposes, is our national invitation to gratitude month. Schools promote, pastors sermonize it and commercials monetize it. But I sit here wondering: are you able to engage it? Is all of that push for gratitude working any good inside of...

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Noticing Transformational Moments: Part 1

Deep, soulful transformation that actually changes your life is not elusive or magical. It is work, don’t get me wrong. But it is also simple and right in front of you. With the soul, there are no formulas, but there are ways to drink from the well of transformation...

Our Son Would Turn 5 Years Old Today

Five years ago I gave birth to a baby boy but the only cries in that delivery room were from those of us grieving his silence. He was stillborn in my sixth month due to a severe case of Amniotic Band Syndrome. Almost 3 kids later, his death, at times, can feel like a...