by Kathy Brasby | Sep 9, 2025 | Listening
I am the Great Renewer. I repair. I restore.
I pull the ashes out of a dead fire pit and bring the wood to life again. I mend the broken places and restore the crushed people.
I draw a shrunken life from the pit and give it a pulse.
Your heart has been stunned into numb confusion as you mourn your loved ones. But I can repair your shattered life and give you fresh hope.
Allow me to give you new strength. A new life. A closer walk with me.
I am the Great Renewer. I repair. I restore.
Restore us, O Lord, and bring us back to you again!
Give us back the joys we once had!
Lamentations 5:21
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved.
For other grief resources, see the Grief Support page on my website. Also, I have written a book, Cutting Through Despair: Dare to Hope, which explores stories of people overcoming hardships as they trust God.
by Kathy Brasby | Sep 3, 2025 | Listening
Memory is a gift from me. You still recall your mother’s voice. Matt’s touch. Remember the rich chimes of the wind through icy branches and the hollow thuds of hammers and air nailers building your barn. The shrill cry of a newborn lamb still echoes through your mind.
Your past is rich with emotions and sounds and sights.
Learn from the past.
Do not imprison yourself in those memories, but be encouraged. What I have promised, I will complete.
Your past will never leave you, but the future unfolds with newness.
I will forge fresh memories and healing paths for you.
Lean into me.
And I said, “This is my fate;
the Most High has turned his hand against me.”
11 But then I recall all you have done, O LORD;
I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.
12 They are constantly in my thoughts.
I cannot stop thinking about your mighty works.
13 O God, your ways are holy.
Is there any god as mighty as you?
14 You are the God of great wonders!
You demonstrate your awesome power among the nations.
Psalm 77:10-14
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved.
For other grief resources, see the Grief Support page on my website. Also, I have written a book, Cutting Through Despair: Dare to Hope, which explores stories of people overcoming hardships as they trust God.
by Kathy Brasby | Aug 27, 2025 | Listening
I am not the roar of thunder, but I control it. Churning rain clouds, jagged lightning, and angry winds obey me.
Those powerful forces strike fear in your heart, but the tornado bows to my instruction and earthquakes become still at my voice.
My authority is greater than your understanding.
Does this comfort you? Or strike fear in your heart? How do you respond?
I am Warrior God who fights for my own.
I can destroy this world, but I always love it instead. I choose to be true to myself, to be good and loving and merciful.
I rule with love. And with power.
Rest in both.
For I am about to do something new.
See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?
I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
The wild animals in the fields will thank me,
the jackals and owls, too,
for giving them water in the desert.
Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland
so my chosen people can be refreshed.
Isaiah 43:19-20
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved.
For other grief resources, see the Grief Resource page on my website. Also, I have written a book, Cutting Through Despair: Dare to Hope, which explores stories of people overcoming hardships as they trust God.
by Kathy Brasby | Aug 20, 2025 | Listening
My love is like honey that flows onto your head, over your hair, and down your face and shoulders.
Taste and see that it is sweet and satisfying. Allow it to comfort and heal your wounded heart.
I will soothe your losses, your questioning, your pain. Give me your wounds and your emptiness. Let me fill you with the sweetness of my love.
My love will comfort you, and my words will heal. Open your heart and let the sweetness of my love flow in. I am with you now and always.
You will never walk alone.
My love heals.
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
1 John 3:1
by Kathy Brasby | Aug 12, 2025 | Listening
Notice the rock face looming ahead, with jagged boulders jutting out.
Each of these stone steps looks too high to get onto, and the summit looks impossible to reach.
Stop for a moment.
When you focus on aching muscles or sadness, you miss my message. Don’t let the path ahead overwhelm you. I am already using my people to help you on this journey.
Set aside your own desires and listen: others are praying for you.
Others are praying for you.
I hear their appeals, and I embrace their love. You can, too.
Feel the warm caress of my love and their love. Let this day be one of sweet music of intercession.
Rest in the pillow of prayerful love and concern.
You will climb soon. I’m sending help.
Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.
Deuteronomy 31:8
