by Kimberly Pelletier | Dec 14, 2016 | Chronicles of Grief
[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...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Jan 26, 2016 | Chronicles of Grief, Featured Posts
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...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Dec 21, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief, Soul Formation
Between working from home, basic hygiene, nourishment needs, relational needs, the holidays, oh…being pregnant, a one-year old, volunteering…yeah, I don’t seem to have time for my writing luxury these days. I have missed you all! Thanks for being patient and...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Aug 27, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief
I feel like I really liked Elsa up until about two weeks ago. Recently, things have been challenging. Not so much because of the sleeping, the eating, or even the crawling…but because of the needing. She seems to fancy little else than me. I can’t make reason to it,...
by Kimberly Pelletier | May 28, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief
Arriving, I drop immediately to my knees, instinctively brushing away the earth from carved stone. Outlining every word with my fingers I remember our baby boy. Re-membering our family…the entirety therein. We are all there together. All members.Grass,...
by Kimberly Pelletier | Mar 12, 2012 | Chronicles of Grief, Soul Formation
It’s like a force field I am forcibly resisting. Though its power is greater than mine, I am strangely able to resist. Its as if it is calling me to open wide my hands, my arms outstretched and walk in…chest first. The closer I get the more difficult it is to resist;...