
Dan Bolin
- Oct 31, 2020
THE EYE OF THE STORM
Someone once said, “Writing is easy you just sit at the typewriter and bleed on the keys.” That has been my experience the past 28 days;...

Dan Bolin
- Oct 30, 2020
FUNERAL POWER
Strength in and from others was a gift I did not realize at the time but appreciate deeply now.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 29, 2020
HOLD ME, HOLD ME, HOLD ME
Tears still well up whenever that hymn is sung ... I often sing the alternate words not only to remember Catie, but because they are true.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 28, 2020
POUR OUT THE WATER
A few days before Catie died, I came to the traumatic realization that she would be better off with Jesus than clinging to her painful life.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 27, 2020
Healthy Outlets
After Catie died, a wise lady told me that my emotional energy for Catie would have no place to go, and it needed an outlet. She was right!

Dan Bolin
- Oct 26, 2020
WHAT'S IN YOUR HAND?
Don't avoid those in pain. You do not need special training to be a friend. Some of the people who reached out to us during the dark days

Dan Bolin
- Oct 25, 2020
TEMPTATION
My worthiness was a bargaining chip, and God would not forsake the righteous! After she died, the root sin of anger blossomed into numerous

Dan Bolin
- Oct 24, 2020
WHAT WE 'SEE' IN THE DARK
Mostly I would just toss and turn, hoping for sleep to take away my troubled thoughts.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 23, 2020
AMBASSADORIAL ADVENTURES
Losing a child brought me face-to-face with some significant truths: There are questions our human minds will never answer.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 22, 2020
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
You would not be much of a God if I could understand what you are doing!

Dan Bolin
- Oct 21, 2020
Walkie-Talkie Connections
Connections blossomed as walkie-talkie conversations ensued.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 20, 2020
ANCHORED TO JESUS
Bitter times don’t just come alongside and pester; their goal is to destroy. Anchored to Him through a relationship with Jesus.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 19, 2020
PRAYER - WHY BOTHER?
After Catie died, I didn’t have a crisis of faith. But I did have a crisis of prayer.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 18, 2020
MAKE THE CALL
Initiating relationships in times of suffering is very difficult. Friends we made in the good times provided the safety net.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 17, 2020
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
Hope is magnificent; it's one of the “big three” qualities upon which Paul built much of his instruction and encouragement: faith, hope, and

Dan Bolin
- Oct 15, 2020
A Little While
During Catie’s five-year rollercoaster ride, we experienced intense times of fear and dread along with seasons of hope and peace. We...

Dan Bolin
- Oct 14, 2020
Salvation's Hope
Our dear friends’ daughter was diagnosed with leukemia about six months before Catie. They came to the hospital, hugged us, prayed with us,

Dan Bolin
- Oct 13, 2020
Bar Ditch Breakdown
A few months after Catie died, I was driving a backroad near our East Texas home. Grieving out loud I said, “God, you have no idea what I’m

Dan Bolin
- Oct 11, 2020
Deep Pain, a Porch and a President
Vice President Bush made an early-September swing through Texas to raise money and votes. And one of his stops was our East Texas hometown o

Dan Bolin
- Oct 10, 2020
If We Love, We Will Weep
I fought back tears many times during our emotional, five-year roller-coaster ride. Sometimes I won; often the tears were victorious.

Dan Bolin
- Oct 9, 2020
Sorrow is OK
SUBSCRIBE TO THE EYE OF THE STORM Many days it took all the strength I could muster to get out of bed. Sorrow has a way of draining our...

Dan Bolin
- Oct 8, 2020
Lessons in the Storm
Reading an instruction manual on what to do in a storm may help sailors prepare for gale force winds and heavy seas. But until they experien

Dan Bolin
- Oct 7, 2020
Twin Toxins
SUBSRIBE TO THE EYE OF THE STORM After the initial shock of Catie’s diagnoses and as a treatment plan emerged, one of my first questions...

Dan Bolin
- Oct 5, 2020
Berserker Bodyguards
SUBSCRIBE TO THE EYE OF THE STORM “Beloved, I say, let your fears go, lest they make you fainthearted. Stop inspiring fear in those...

Dan Bolin
- Oct 5, 2020
Surviving the Storm
SUBSRIBE TO THE EYE OF THE STORM Paul and 275 sailors, soldiers, prisoners, and passengers were caught in a fierce storm while crossing...

Dan Bolin
- Oct 4, 2020
Introduction - October 4
Catie's fourth birthday was a blur. Her yearly checkup changed our lives. Catie was diagnosed with leukemia.