by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | May 7, 2024 | (in)courage, Books, Broken and Raw, Devotional, Faith, Faithful, Family, Grief
I planted my heels firmly into the ground and, with both my hands and my voice shaking, read a prayer to close my grandfather’s funeral service. With the wind blowing and tears falling and God watching, I held the prayer written weeks in advance in my hands, printed...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Feb 21, 2022 | (in)courage, Community, Family, friendship
Shelves and screws and seemingly random pieces of what would eventually become a wooden cabinet covered the living room floor. It was somewhere around step thirty-one that I knew without a doubt: This was a two-person job. Four hands were needed to ensure the boards...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | May 12, 2021 | (in)courage, Devotional, Faith, Family
I wrote this article three weeks ago, Nana went Home two weeks ago, and Pap-Pop passed away exactly one year ago… to the day. As someone who loves and remembers dates/details, when I was assigned the May 12th article at incourage.me, I was confident it wasn’t a...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jun 23, 2020 | Devotional, Faith, Faithful, Family
My grandfather passed away last month. A few hours after receiving the news, the memory of a long-forgotten college paper crossed my mind. It was late. Both night and tears had fallen, but instead of going to bed I sat at my desk searching through documents. There....
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 8, 2020 | Easter, Even If Not, Faith, Faithful, Family
A few years ago, my family spent week after week sitting in waiting rooms and hoping for answers. Just a few hours before the light of Easter morning began to stretch across the sky, my phone lit up with one of the worst text messages of my life. Exactly two years...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Nov 24, 2014 | Beauty, Faith, Family, Story, Thanksgiving
In order to truly live, one must do one’s living amongst the breathing. I’m sure it’s been said more beautifully before, but those fourteen words sum up my November. After writing 31 days in a row on , the well had run dry and if you encountered me...