Sweet Grace Stories
The stories shared on this page provide a healing opportunity for our support group families to tell their story.
Shared Stories
The Smallest Feet Leave The Biggest Imprints On Our Hearts
I have been married 5 years this May to the most wonderful man. I moved to South Dakota with my husband due to his career with the Military. After I finished nursing school in August last year we decided it was time to see if we could start a family. I had always been...
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 Oh sweet friends! What a journey my heart and faith have been on the last six years.....actually I take that back,...
109 Miles, 109 baskets, 109 families given an immeasurable gift!
We are here! We have made the huge trip out west to soak in this area and slow our heart rates but we have also made this trip for you! Josh Dortenzo and Joe Tice (and probably a Dortenzo kiddo or two along the way) will be biking 109 miles of the Mickelson Trail in...
The world keeps on moving…
Tomorrow is March 13th. The day our world changed forever. Our beautiful, tiny, precious first born girl entered this world. She entered this world without ever taking one breath of air, fully silent and fully still. And yet she captured our hearts, she had captured...
Unpacking grief as school begins..
I have spent a lot of time in prayer and in thought the last few weeks. Not gonna lie, its been a mess of a few weeks and God and I have been spending a lot of time together. I have been weepy, on edge, in a fog.... I have spent time "unpacking" why my heart is so...
Always remember, the harder the storm rages, the brighter your rainbow will be.
First comes the storm, and then the brightest rainbow... Our best friends found out they were expecting in January 2015. Less than 2 weeks later, we let them know that we had some news of our own. We were due only 3 weeks apart! They hadn't been trying, but we had....
Finding Peace in a Broken World
We were pregnant! We’d been married for almost two years and after about 5 months of trying, we were pregnant! We COULD NOT WAIT for our little one to be here and make our home a family of 3 (plus our pup Juno). I heard all the horror stories of miscarriages the first...
“I want to give God the glory for all the good He does in our lives.”
I have struggled with the decision to share this or not. But I want to give God the glory for all the good He does in our lives. Last year on my birthday, I sat in a waiting room waiting for a second ultrasound to confirm what we already knew; we had lost our second...
Only a moment she stayed, but what an imprint she left on our hearts…
When asked, most people wouldn’t say the same date for their best and worst day of their life. But if you asked my wife Laura or I, we would both tell you the same thing, April 30, 2014. That is the date that our beautiful daughter Avery Marie was born at 5:52 p.m....
“There is a Calm After the Storm”
There is calm after the storm. Or at least this is what I’ve found after going through a miscarriage. I never had any way to explain what it’s like to live through losing a child, but looking back at the storm I lived through, I now see the calm….and I’m finally...