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  • A Broken Hallelujah

    A Broken Hallelujah

    It’s “Joy” week in the season of Advent. There’s a cognitive dissonance there, right? The world doesn’t feel very joyful. It hasn’t been in a long time.  Christmas is supposed to be the happiest time of the year, but pain doesn’t cease to be pain just because we drape it in lights and bows. I can deck the long, dark […]

    Anna Cosper

    December 19, 2022
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  • Thanksgiving for the Weary Soul

    Thanksgiving for the Weary Soul

    This time of year has been one filled with tension for several years now. From 2019-2021, I was sick in one way or another and unable to eat more than a few bites. It took me a year to recover from my MALS surgery–so I spent that Thanksgiving in pain as well. I guess in […]

    Anna Cosper

    November 24, 2022
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  • What it Really Means to Have Courage

    What it Really Means to Have Courage

    We all need courage to face the world around us, it just might require letting go of what we think courage is and taking up the ways He leads us down.

    Anna Cosper

    August 2, 2022
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    all posts, chronic pain, mental health, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • Dear Me: Lines to the Person I Want To Be

    Dear Me: Lines to the Person I Want To Be

    the only you that you need to be is the you that is found in Him.

    Anna Cosper

    July 7, 2022
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    all posts, spiritual growth
  • Finding Jesus When You’ve Been Hurt by the Church

    Finding Jesus When You’ve Been Hurt by the Church

    What do you do when you’ve been hurt by a church and those within it?

    Anna Cosper

    May 10, 2022
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    all posts, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • Clinging to the Cross

    Clinging to the Cross

    When I open my eyes I see blurry, fluorescent lights above me. My room is quiet and cold. I sit up and look around, panic building in my chest. I don’t know where I am. I don’t know why I’m here. And I don’t know where anyone I know is. I’m hooked to machines and […]

    Anna Cosper

    May 2, 2022
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  • Holy Saturday Thoughts From the ICU

    Holy Saturday Thoughts From the ICU

    And then there He is. With me. Always with me.

    Anna Cosper

    April 16, 2022
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    all posts, chronic pain, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • When Your Dreams Fall Apart

    When Your Dreams Fall Apart

    There is pain in giveness, an ache in surrender. To give up what we desperately long for, and hand it over to the One who longs for us.

    Anna Cosper

    February 28, 2022
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    all posts, mental health, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • The Space In between

    The Space In between

    For though we are facing a world of endless tribulation, it is a world overcome, a world overtaken, a world ever-conquered

    Anna Cosper

    January 27, 2022
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    all posts, chronic pain, mental health, suffering and trials
  • Take This Cup

    Take This Cup

    Perhaps the goal is not to convince God through tear-filled pleas to remove our burdens.  Perhaps the goal is to find God in those burdens.

    Anna Cosper

    January 18, 2022
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    all posts, chronic pain, mental health, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • Paper Prayers

    Paper Prayers

    These paper prayers, though inscribed on delicate paper, are anything but fragile. They are the tools I use to reinforce the foundations of my peace. They are faith in physical form.

    Anna Cosper

    January 6, 2022
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    all posts, spiritual growth
  • Here I Raise My Ebenezer

    Here I Raise My Ebenezer

    What once felt impossible is now historical.

    Anna Cosper

    December 27, 2021
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    all posts, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • A Broken Hallelujah

    A Broken Hallelujah

    He is the exhale we’ve all been waiting for. And He’s coming back.

    Anna Cosper

    December 13, 2021
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    all posts, spiritual growth
  • I Am With You Always

    I Am With You Always

    Don’t you feel it? Behind the Christmas lights and carols and decking of halls. Don’t you feel the longing in your soul for the night to finally be pierced?

    Anna Cosper

    November 29, 2021
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    all posts, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • The Valley

    The Valley

    You know when you almost have a wreck? You slam on the brakes or swerve into the other lane, narrowly avoiding a vehicular disaster. In a flash you can see the possibilities of how that scenario could have unfolded. Your heart skips and your seatbelt locks. For a few moments after, you heart rate remains elevated as you remain shaken, and your seat belt remains locked. That is how those late nights sometimes feel. It feels like my seatbelt is locked.

    Anna Cosper

    November 8, 2021
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    all posts, mental health, suffering and trials
  • Uprooted

    Uprooted

    Jesus—scoffed at, betrayed, hurt by those closest to Him. Jesus—far from a stranger to suffering and shame. He reminded me of His broken body, of His tears, of His shame. Because we do not have a Savior unable to sympathize with our pain. He took on our pain.

    Anna Cosper

    October 28, 2021
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    all posts, mental health, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • An Unexpected Healing

    An Unexpected Healing

    Physical healing wasn’t the only kind of healing to happen over my year of recovery.

    Anna Cosper

    August 20, 2021
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    all posts, chronic pain, spiritual growth
  • Above All Else

    Above All Else

    I want to be more worried about how I treat the people I disagree with than I am about how much I disagree with them.

    Anna Cosper

    August 7, 2021
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    all posts, spiritual growth
  • Driveway Lament

    Driveway Lament

    Lamenting is different than complaining. Lamenting is grief voiced aloud. Where in complaining there is no hope found, in lamenting there is. Lamenting is an admission of inadequacy and inability to be okay on our own. Lamenting is how we rely on God alone in the darkest places. It’s knowing who you are in Christ, and knowing that He takes you at your weakest and most broken. So I lament in my car.

    Anna Cosper

    June 16, 2021
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    all posts, mental health, spiritual growth, suffering and trials
  • Redeemed

    Redeemed

    Something has to be broken to be fixed. Something has to be unworthy to be given grace. That’s what makes redemption so glorious. That’s what makes His grace so overwhelming. The idea that something that feels so, so unlikely to prove to be anything but painful, can be turned around.

    Anna Cosper

    May 20, 2021
    Uncategorized
    all posts, christian, mental health
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