Category: Why Didn’t God Protect Them?

Part 2 Does the Silence of God Equal the Absence of God?

by Melissa Shaffer | Nov 18, 2025

Before we step into the second half of this conversation, let’s remember where we left off:...

Brothers

by Melissa Shaffer | Dec 10, 2022

. Sawyer, my younger son, has not opened up to us much since Tristan ran to heaven. But...

Was Tristan’s Life Second Best?

by Melissa Shaffer | Oct 11, 2021

I have a new favorite passage of scripture, but it’s a weird one to highlight: But he...

Why Did You Give Me This LIfe?

by Melissa Shaffer | Sep 13, 2021

, If it weren’t for our friend Eva, I wouldn’t have known anything about pottery. She...

Missing

by Melissa Shaffer | Aug 30, 2021

Today I caught myself looking at my son’s Instagram account and all the wonderful things he had...

Five Just Isn’t Right

by Melissa Shaffer | Jul 26, 2021

I’d seen this picture of the five of us for years. It never made me cry that one of us was...

The Masterpiece

by Melissa Shaffer | Jul 12, 2021

Tristan’s Painting is Not Finished Yet (painting on the Chateauguay river) Sometimes when...

Job Knew God

by Todd | Jun 28, 2021

Since losing my son to suicide, the book of Job has become one of the most precious books of the Bible to me. The book I once skimmed through is now a book I linger in to drink deeply from.