My Daughter Saw Her DAD (who died 17 months before!)

It was Friday, June 11th, 2021 when I received an unexpected call from my 15-year-old daughter. Jaycie had been at Falls Creek church camp all week with our church youth group, and they were expected home the next day. Her tear-filled and yet excited voice told me something significant had happened. "Mom, I saw DAD...

Real Men Cry, Too (A final message from my late husband)

While sorting through things of my beloved late husband, Hank, I stumbled across what appeared to be notes he was writing for a sermon. He had titled it, "Real Men Cry, Too". The haunting words on the paper both inspired me and broke my heart, as my children and I still grieve the loss of...

Knocked Down, but Not Destroyed

Spring is in the air. I'm a bit sleepy from losing an hour of sleep with the time change last night, but excited about the prospect of more daylight in my day. I spent yesterday working in my front yard, doing more manual labor than I have in months. After the ice and snow storms...

Message in the MESS! Hurricane #Harvey & Here at Home

Only days ago, Hurricane Harvey made landfall, bullying its way into the Gulf Coast and bringing a nightmare upon south Texas and Louisiana. Though thousands of people tried to prepare, many leaving their homes for higher ground, but no one could escape its ravaging power. If the hurricane itself didn't blow you down, the rain...

My Haunting Dream: The Orphan Killing

          A true testimony of Becky Wright, Written down Aug. 2, 2010.          ***Read to the end for the November 2016 update & SONG!! *** Thirty-two days ago, on June 30th, 2010, I had a very disturbing dream. Its images and sounds are so vivid in my memory...

From Murder to a Mission: Purpose Past the Pain

Five years ago, I wrote the blog post below, "Sheerah: Grieving Woman, Builder of Cities". God laid on my heart to share it again, with a couple of updates. I pray it encourages you today. I shared this Bible account with many women in Africa in February 2016, knowing they would identify with a woman...

Highlight Reel (Most Popular Posts)

Hello, readers of Inspiring Hope Blog! Becky here, grateful and humbled by the response of readers to this blog. As you read this, I will be driving seven hours from the St. Louis area back home to northeastern Oklahoma, so those who get this by email on Sunday afternoons -- it may not arrive until Monday....

Fierce Love

"Mommy, come outside and see the baby bird in the rose bush!" My ten-year-old daughter was thrilled to discover a baby cardinal, camouflaged carefully inside our backyard rose bush. Out I came, camera in hand, whispering so as not to scare the young chick. As we approached the bush, however, the apparent parents of the...

Walking Dead… or Alive

A couple years ago during a visit to my son's home, he urged me to watch one of his favorite television shows, "Walking Dead". I reluctantly sat through a couple of episodes, looking away when the zombies would actually try to eat the living people. Eeeuuwww!!  A few months ago, I had a nightmare about...

Tell Me Something Good

It was October 11th, 1995. Unfamiliar with the song the worship leader selected, I was concentrating to read the notes accurately as I accompanied him on piano at church that evening. My heart was heavy, though, as I dreaded the anniversary that tomorrow would bring: the death by miscarriage of the baby we'd waited so long...