What This Blog is
My name is Tiffany Clark. I started this blog in winter 2008 to try to process life taking care of my grandmom whose mind was deteriorating from Alzheimer's disease. For four years I lived with her and was her full-time caretaker and that experience changed my life and this blog became a place to outlet the frustrations, lessons, grief, and the memories-both good and bad. When she died in January of 2012 I wasn't sure what to do with this blog and for awhile, it became my outlet for grief and memories...and then it slowly fizzled out as I "moved on" with my life. But I think I'm ready to bring it back...
A Life After Death.
My Grandmom's: Taking care of her feels like another lifetime ago- like it was another world. But there are so many things in my day to day life that remind me of her, and I am who I am the wife and daughter and sister and homemaker I am today because of her. I still have dreams about taking care of her and still work through guilt and pain and memories. And so in one sense this blog is about a life after that death...
My Singleness: I got married in December 2014 after going on my first date a year and a half before that. Dating and engagement and marriage has been so much to process and I've realized how much marriage is truly an experience in dying- Tiffany Doran no longer lives- I am now One with my husband and there's so much blessing in it as well as so much struggle to die to self and to an old way of living that didn't have to take into consideration another human. So this blog is one way to process all that I am learning as a newly married woman.
Myself: And that brings me to the true meaning behind the title of this blog. Really what I am trying to capture is the life after death I have experienced in Jesus Christ. That one day I understood that there was one way to God and it was through death- not just my physical death- but through putting to death my flesh- that Tiffany could not earn or work or produce anything that would earn the way to be in the presence of God. But that Jesus Christ could because He lived perfectly and never sinned and never failed and He has died to pay for my guilt. And so I chose one day to die to myself and accept the Life that Jesus Christ offers- "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20
