There's something I want to tell you that may be exactly what you needed to hear.

Last week I did a solo Soul Sisters Unscripted. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a community of women my dear friend Lindsey and I created over on Instagram to help encourage women in their walk through life. It's Holy Spirit inspired, true life, goodness we hope you all can take advantage of.

​This week I had to go solo because of time constraints, but what came out ended up being a huge help to a lot of people.

As I've traveled this LIVE JOY LIFE road over the last few years, I realized something very important:

You can grieve the loss of a life, a job, health, or a dream. Grief can form from the loss of an experience or marriage.

When both my littles where born, they came with medical issues that required an immediate trip to the NICU. There was no newborn snuggles or people coming to our room to visit the baby. Our days were filled with trips to the NICU, handwashing, rules of when we could pick them up, hold them, or see them. As part of those experiences, I grieve the loss of a normal newborn experience.

I say all of this to tell you:

Grief and pain are normal parts of life. But there is something beautiful that can come from all of this pain. With time, faith, hope and stillness in God, you can find the greater purpose beyond anything you can imagine. I know I sure did.

And my friend, "This Changes Everything."

In this together,

Sonya

P.S. if you missed it on the last email, I have a VIP access experience for my upcoming book. You can check out all the extras here. ​