A 100-day devotional for widows
This devotional follows a new widow's challenging journey through 100 scripture journal entries uncovering hope, strength, peace, and comfort. Written especially for those struggling with loss, Kat Timonen reaches for the source of healing: reading God's Word as well as prayer. Each daily entry features additional notes to help readers navigate their own grief experience.
Available in paperback · ISBN 9781662883552
One entry a day, each rooted in God's Word and written from a widow's real journey.
Themes that meet you where you are, on the hard days and the better ones.
Every entry includes additional notes to help you navigate your own grief experience.
When words are hard to find, A Widow's Journal is a gentle gift. It offers daily scripture, prayer, and companionship from someone who has walked the same path.
Meet the author
Kat is a native Oregonian recently transplanted in Central Texas. She's a mom of two grown guys, a retired Middle School teacher, a Sunday School teacher, and an avid reader. She now leads a GriefShare group at church, enjoys her grandkids as well as keeping one spoiled rescue kitty happy.
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As I began reading about Lydia, this is the question I wanted to know: was she a widow? She was making decisions as head of a lucrative business, determining issues as a leader of her household, and she was already a worshipper of God.
She lived in the coastal town of Zarephath between Tyre and Sidon, a widow with her child, and her provisions were low. The drought and famine that consumed the land was an act of the Lord for the continued disobedience of His people who continued serving the pagan gods of the surrounding nations. And King Ahab had refused to repent for worshipping the Baals, for he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. So, Elijah the prophet of God, had spoken what God told him: there will be no rain nor dew on the land.
Widows often lament: I could never remarry---That would be so hard! I had the perfect person for me! Yes, in so many ways, I can relate! In time, some widows do remarry, finding their next chapter. Others step into a pattern of serving the Lord, finding contentment in this service, being a “laborer” in the field of souls who need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ. Some will find their way to serve in other avenues like reaching out to minister to other widows. But with young widows especially, with so much of life ahead, the years can seem so long. In this scenario, we find one of the Bible’s young widows who found her service in a difficult time. Let’s meet Anna.
Short reflections from Kat on grief, faith, and the small moments along the way.
I'm learning a lot from my Texas Sage. Three months of Texas triple digits didn't faze my plants. Oh, I watered them along with the other plants. But then the heat broke, and the Central Texas skies broke down into…
"That old house I would pass daily on my way to work. In fact it was well known, not so much for who'd lived there, but the mere fact it was still standing! It was a two story farm house leaning against trees.…
I've learned so much about what grief has brought me. Trust: I've learned to trust God in ways I had not tried before. Oh, I trusted Jesus Christ as my Savior. I trusted my children into His watchful care. I trusted our…
There are so many things beyond my power to have much of an effect on. Something too heavy, too far out of reach, and not in my wheelhouse. Or someone I see needing help that's beyond me, skill sets my husband excelled…
August brought a milestone: five years a widow. Five years since I saw him or heard his voice. Not...it's just been a year. The hard second year. The challenging third year when cancer showed up. The fourth year dealing…
There are times when life can seem overwhelming. Times when you need to pull over and regroup, but this road doesn't have a wide enough shoulder to stop. David felt this. In fact Psalm 57 is written while he's on the…