When Survival Turns Into Responsibility

When Survival Turns Into Responsibility

It is widely understood that surviving a life-threatening experience changes a person completely. Whether welcomed or not, that change settles in. The real questions often come later, when life slows down, and no one is watching. What do you do with whom you have...
Faith When Nothing Feels Certain

Faith When Nothing Feels Certain

Lisa Crites’ story is one shaped by loss, illness, and an unflinching honesty about what it means to endure. As a cancer survivor and the author of Beautifully Unbroken, she does not present faith as something tidy or reassuring. Instead, her experience reveals faith...
When Grief and Diagnosis Arrive at the Same Time

When Grief and Diagnosis Arrive at the Same Time

Some seasons don’t give you space to breathe between losses. For Lisa Crites, grief didn’t come in a neat, single chapter. It came layered. First, the sudden loss of her mother. Then, before the ground had time to settle, a breast cancer diagnosis. There was no...