If you’re in the middle of something hard… you’re not alone.
Faith-filled encouragement, honest stories, and practical resources to help you navigate life's hard seasons — and find hope in the middle of them.
I need hope.
Honest stories, faith-filled encouragement, and reminders that even in difficult seasons, there is still beauty, purpose, and joy to be found.
I'm walking through cancer or survivorship.
Practical guidance, honest conversations, and resources shaped by someone who's been there.
Someone I love is hurting.
Meaningful ways to show up with compassion, practical help, and thoughtful gifts when you don't know what to say or do.
Now AVAILABLE: Faces of Cancer
Cancer has more than one face.
There is the diagnosis.
And then there is everything that comes with it — fear, grief, anger, loneliness, guilt, vulnerability, faith, family, identity, and hope.
Faces of Cancer is a faith-rooted companion for the emotional road no treatment plan can map.
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For any hard season
When the words are hard to find, these cards offer truth to hold onto.
Words for the Journey — Core Set includes 12 beautifully printed prayer and Scripture cards created for the heart of any hard season. Whether you are walking through fear, waiting, exhaustion, uncertainty, or the need for courage, this set was designed to bring comfort, hope, and steady encouragement.
Each card is printed on quality cardstock and mailed to you, ready to use, display, tuck into a Bible, place beside a hospital bed, or give to someone who needs a tangible reminder that they are not alone.
This core collection is the foundation of the full Words for the Journey series and can be used on its own or alongside the add-on sets.
This printed set includes:
12 Prayer + Scripture cards
1 cover card
1 insert card
Printed 4x6 card format
Packaged with care and mailed to you
Card themes included:
When Fear Won’t Let Go
When Strength Runs Out
Walking the Valley
An Unknown Future
Just the Next Step
Bone-Tired
Asking for Healing
Courage for Today
Worry in Waves
When You Can’t See Why
When Joy Feels Impossible
Held No Matter What
Details:
Physical printed card set
Cards will be mailed to you
No printing required
Designed as 4x6 cards
Also available as a digital download
A gentle companion for hard days and a beautiful, ready-to-give encouragement gift.
A thoughtful gift for someone walking through cancer and needing both comfort and honest encouragement.
The Wrapped in Hope + Faces of Cancer Gift Set pairs a soft prayer shawl with Faces of Cancer: The Emotions No One Prepares You For, and the God Who Meets You There.
The shawl offers something tangible to wrap around your shoulders during treatment, appointments, rest, or quiet moments. The book offers words for the emotional and spiritual side of cancer — the fear, grief, anger, loneliness, vulnerability, and uncertainty that can be difficult to explain.
Together, they create a meaningful gift that says:
You are seen.
You are loved.
You are not walking alone.
This gift set includes one Wrapped in Hope Prayer Shawl, one copy of Faces of Cancer, a prayer + Scripture card, a “What Is a Prayer Shawl?” card, a handwritten Hope Lives Now note, and gift-ready packaging.
Sometimes comfort comes in something as simple as being wrapped up and reminded that you are not alone.
The Wrapped in Hope Prayer Shawl was created as a tangible reminder of God's presence in the middle of hard seasons.
Years ago, during one of my own difficult seasons, I found myself reaching for an old shawl when I was scared, lonely, or overwhelmed. I would wrap it around my shoulders — sometimes even over my head — and that simple act reminded me of being held by God.
The shawl didn't change what I was facing. But it gave me something tangible to reach for when I needed comfort.
That experience is the heart behind these prayer shawls.
Each shawl is thoughtfully prepared as a gift of encouragement and includes a Hope Lives Now prayer card with Scripture, a card explaining the meaning of a prayer shawl, and a personal handwritten note.
Use it during treatment, appointments, prayer, rest, difficult nights, or anytime you need a simple reminder:
You are seen. You are loved. And you are not walking this road alone.
What's included
One soft prayer shawl
Hope Lives Now Wrapped in Hope prayer + Scripture card
“What Is a Prayer Shawl?” explanation card
Handwritten encouragement card
Gift-ready Hope Lives Now packaging
Please note: The shawl itself does not hold special spiritual power. It is simply a tangible reminder of prayer, comfort, and God's presence in the middle of a hard season.
When cancer changes everything, knowing the next step helps.
There is a medical plan for treating cancer.
But there are a hundred other questions nobody thinks to answer.
What do I take to treatment? How do I prepare for surgery? How do I handle the fear?
What happens when treatment ends and everyone expects life to go back to normal?
Hope Lives Now offers practical resources shaped by lived experience
for diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and survivorship.
Changing how we care for people going through hard things.
When someone we love is hurting, we often want to help but don't know where to begin.
Meaningful support doesn't have to be complicated or expensive.
Sometimes it's a meal that makes a hard day easier, a thoughtful gift, a handwritten note, or simply showing up and staying.
Through practical resources, Hope Baskets, Blue Bags, and thoughtful gift ideas,
Hope Lives Now helps turn good intentions into meaningful care.
Hope Baskets
Thoughtful care for someone walking through a hard season.
"I was stunned to receive the package — filled with love, warm wishes, and endless gifts..." — CJ
Not sure what to give?
Explore Curated Care & Gift Guides for thoughtful, practical ideas→
Blue Bags
Small gifts opened one day at a time — tangible reminders that someone is thinking of you.
Free help when you need a next step.
Practical guides, checklists, prayers, and resources for cancer, caregiving, survivorship, and hard seasons.
Bringing hope into the conversation.
Through storytelling, humor, faith, and lived experience, Kim speaks to organizations and communities about navigating life's challenges, showing up for others, and the difference compassion can make.
Hi, I’m Kim.
Writer, cancer survivor, former nurse, wife, mom, grandmother — and someone who has spent a lot of years learning that hope isn't always something you feel right away.
Sometimes it's something you reach for before your feelings catch up.
Through cancer, chronic illness, loss, rebuilding, and ordinary life, one thing has remained:
God is the anchor.
Hope is the thread.
Hope Lives Now grew from the things I needed in my own hard seasons — honest words, practical help, faith without easy answers, and people willing to stay in the middle with me.
But I've also learned that life is more than the hard things we experience. There's still laughter, joy, purpose, and beauty to be found along the way.
Around here, we make room for all of it.
Hope Moves Forward.
Every Hope Lives Now purchase is part of something bigger.
Through Hope Forward, 10% of Hope Lives Now profits is set aside to help provide Hope Baskets, Blue Bags, and other tangible expressions of care for people walking through cancer and hard seasons.
Because hope was never meant to stop with us.
From the Blog: Notes in the Middle
Faith in real life — even in the middle of hard things.