Gracefully Broken: The Legacy of Ellie Love

This post is weighing very heavily on my heart. I have so many thoughts swirling in my head right now, but I trust that God will allow this to all come together in a way that makes sense. So here goes nothin'! Victor or victim? What a simple, yet loaded, question. Are we living as victors in Christ or as victims of our circumstances? This is something God has been speaking to my heart over the past several weeks. Because of our human nature, it's always easier to point the finger at everyone else and make ourselves feel like a victim. It's not fun to think about ways that we fall short or areas where we struggle. And what about the times when we actually are victims? No doubt about it, I am a victim of child loss. It is not something I chose for myself, and I would have done anything within my power to prevent it from happening to me. But it did happen. And for a long time, I felt like I was a victim of my circumstances and that so much of who I was at my core had been