1 post published by Karen Harmening during August 2025| Listening to Him
“Today marks 3000 days since we were separated from Sarah.” Those are the incomprehensible words of the text my husband sent me this morning. It took my breath away to read it. I don…| Listening to Him
This week, I was given an unexpected and priceless gift. After I said my name to introduce myself to a stranger, her eyes widened as a smile broke across her face, and she said, “You’re Sarah’s mom…| Listening to Him
Today is Sarah’s birthday, our eighth without her. “Eight.” Such an inadequate number to describe the span of my painfully missing and longing for my child. “Forever” …| Listening to Him
Lying awake in the still of the night last night, a seemingly endless reel of joyful family memories played in my mind’s eye. One by one, snapshots of time flashed in the dark, countless prec…| Listening to Him
I have an intrinsic longing to be part of a team. I deeply love and crave the experience of walking and serving wholeheartedly with others. Yet it seems so much of my journey is one of solitude. I awoke at 2 am this morning with a deep sense of aloneness. I grappled in prayer over … Continue reading Alone With God Alone→| Listening to Him
Oxford English Dictionary defines pillar figuratively as “a person seen as a source of support or stability; esp. one of the main supporters of some principle or institution, a…| Listening to Him
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the rac…| Listening to Him
I’m very excited to announce Sifted is scheduled to be released on June 4th on Amazon, Kobo, and IngramSpark. It will be available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook formats. The ebook is ava…| Listening to Him
I’m feeling the full gamut of emotions as I share this announcement. Much of the past year has been spent diligently working toward this goal, and it’s finally here… Sifted: Diary…| Listening to Him
The moment we hear the incomprehensible words that our child has died we instantly recognize the devastation as catastrophic. But in the weeks, months, and years that follow we are involuntarily ta…| Listening to Him