Kristena Tunstall

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Winter

Winter has arrived bringing its fury; It’s cold, it’s wet the snow is our blanket Winter is so dreary, it brings about sadness; The sadness no one wants yet it comes any way Winter can be and almost always is depressing; It’s hard to get through when there are so many bleak days ahead Winter seems like it will never end; The days merge one into another Yet one day, the single piece of grass pops through; The green against the white is quite a sight to behold Spring … [Read more...]

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Grateful for the little things in life

It seems that sitting in church, like I am now, seems to be a place where I feel I can open up so freely and easily.  I am so grateful and excited to be going back to church and finding one that Keith and I feel at home with.  I know that it is God who has been nudging our hearts to find a new church home.  It just has been hard grieving as much as we have and having anger issues.  But it feels good to be around fellow believers as we are now. I think now I am going to seek out another woman … [Read more...]

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Seeing Mari again

I want to share a passage of the Bible that was recently shown to me: 2 Samuel 12:15-23 15 After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. 16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth[a] on the ground. 17 The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them. 18 On the seventh day the child died. … [Read more...]

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Writing through tragedy

Recently things have been good.  I have not been overly sad.  I mean, I miss Mari but I am doing good. I sit here in church again.  I am glad we have started going to church on a regular basis.  It is important for the two of us and our marriage.  My hope is it only makes us stronger and helps us to get through the loss of Mari.  I know through God anything can happen. I know some people might say, “How could you believe in a God who would do this?”  My response is God knows more than I … [Read more...]

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Find a new church home

Well, yesterday was a good day.  I had the day off so I spent most of the day typing the entries I write in my pink journal here at work.  It felt good to finally get them typed up and posted on Mari’s website.  Now that her b-day has come and gone, it is easier again.  I am grateful for this. We went to try out a new church on Sunday.  We have not gone to church since we moved here at the end of April last year.  I know I started to feel a tug to start looking in the past couple of months … [Read more...]

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Singing…

January 2 I sit here in church service.  Right away they start by singing.  The tears start to well up and I have to leave.  I still have a hard time just being able to sing in church.  It is so hard for me.  Somehow it just makes me miss Mari all the more.  She would always love the singing portion of church service.  She would sing in her own special way.  She would sometimes flap her arms in excitement.  She truly loved the singing.  I think I just truly miss that with her not here … [Read more...]

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“Out of these ashes beauty will rise”

Steven Curtis Chapman has a song that talks about “Out of these ashes beauty will rise.”  The ashes represent the tragedy his family endured the day their daughter Maria died.  The “beauty [that] will rise” is representative of God’s grace and love that even though something as terrible as losing a child, God is still there through it all.  He is seeing you through. I can say I do love this song and the hope it brings.  However, my life doesn’t seem to have found the Beauty of it all.  I … [Read more...]

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Unfinished…

(I started to write this post one day but never finished it but thought I would just share the little bit written) Live can be such a mess.  It never seems to just go swimmingly but has so many bumps and bruises along the course.  Personally, I wish my life could be just a little bit easier sometimes but it never seems to be. … [Read more...]

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Marriage

What do you do when you see something falling apart and you can’t seem to do anything about it?  Do you do nothing?  Do you try to fix it?  If you try to fix it, how long should you go before you give up or do you give up at all?  When is enough “enough”? There are so many things in this life that you either give up on so easily or we “try” to fix it but when it just gets too hard or takes too long we just stop.  We give up.  This is how many marriages fall apart today because, to put it … [Read more...]

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Unchoices

When life gets hard, what should you do?  Everyone is different and everyone handles their problems in different ways.  For the most part, our lives involve different paths and the choices we make to get there.  Some choices come by easily and others are difficult to almost impossible to have to make.  And then there are the things that happen in our lives that can be called the unchoices. So what exactly is an unchoice you might be asking?  Well, this is when something either happens to you … [Read more...]

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