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Solace: Words of Consolation

On November 5, 2023, something very simple and very precious to my heart came into the world: Solace: Words of Consolation. It is not a big book. It is not fancy. It is a small booklet, a quiet gathering of black and white photographs I captured during one of the hardest seasons of my life, paired with the Scriptures that held me together.

For several months, I was a full-time caregiver for my mom. Those were sacred, exhausting, tender days where love and grief lived side by side. And when she passed suddenly, the ground beneath me shifted in ways I still struggle to put into words. The verses in this booklet are Scriptures friends shared with me, prayed over me, and passages the Lord pressed gently into my heart. Solace began there, on the floor of my heart.

Every page in this little booklet was prayed over. I put it together slowly, sometimes with tears, sometimes with deep breaths, and always with the reminder that the living Word of God was what carried me. Pairing Scripture with my photographs helped me grieve. It helped me worship. It helped me gather everything the Lord used in that season into one place, a place I still return to on days when missing her feels fresh again.

I created it for myself, but I also created it for anyone walking through a valley of their own. If you have ever reached for something simple, something gentle, something rooted in the promises of God when your heart aches, then Solace was made for you too.

It is just a booklet. But it is full of the Word that sustained me then and still sustains me today.

My prayer is that as you turn its pages, you will sense the same nearness of Jesus that met me in my grief, the same comforting presence that holds us when we cannot hold ourselves.

You can find Solace: Words of Consolation on Amazon for anyone who might need its gentle encouragement.  Here: https://amzn.to/4oGccoD

May His Word be your solace too.

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