What are you grateful for today? Share . . .
These days since my father’s death I’ve been moving through life at my usual pace. Seeing me from the outside doesn’t look much different than before, but my insides feel crumpled. It’s as if my insides were a sheet of paper crumpled up into a small ball that has been laid flat on the table […]
My friends, I am starting to see hope and feel gratitude after my father’s death. See, I have made many mistakes in my life, however, choosing to spend the rest of my life with the man I call my husband is not one of them. As time moves over the wound of losing my father, […]
My friends, it was a cold and windy morning on the 29th of January when my children said goodbye to their Poppy. It had only been 4 short months since he sat at their soccer games cheering from the sidelines. 5 months since he sat in church watching his grandson receive the sacrament of eucharist. […]
It has been almost three whole days since you died. Looking back at the five days you spent home on hospice, replaying each moment, I have come to understand some important things about those days. First, time felt suspended. I have never felt something so surreal. I was looking at my watch often waiting for […]
Life is but a combination of fleeting moments strung together to create hours, days, years, and decades. As I sit next to my dying father, I am running through the combination of fleeting moments from our life together. I remember less of what he said to me and more of how he made me feel. […]
Stop me if you have heard this one before. Or lived this one before . . . To a child, love was withheld and unconditional love was a thing with unending conditions. Love was only available for the obedient, so a child modifies their behavior to get the love need. Some people call that “manipulation” […]
My friends, I do not mean mandatory gratitude or mindless optimism. I suggest that gratitude is a Call to Action What are you grateful for today? Sometimes it is as simple as being grateful for the weather. The sun is shining, I can do my yard work. It is raining, I don’t need to feel […]
My friends, many of us have said . . . I want to get outside of myself . . . what does that even mean? Well . . . There are some mornings that deserve prayer more than others. The mornings that I wake up and feel happy, I have a prayer of gratitude. The […]