Posts by joyinthisjourney
i carry your heart
i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear;and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fearno fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i wantno world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will…
Read MoreI Went to the Cemetery Today
I went to her plot in the cemetery today. It wasn’t the first time I’d been back, but the last time we went it was very cold and we didn’t have sufficient coats to stay for long. Today was a beautiful, unseasonably warm day. The sky was the brilliant blue of fall, the sun was…
Read MoreInertia
“An object in motion tends to stay in motion. An object at rest tends to stay at rest.” – definition of the concept of inertia, as best as I can remember from high school physics. I know that law is meant to describe characteristics of the natural world. However, I see it play out in…
Read MoreHallowing Christ on Halloween
I posted this article last year, and have been meaning to repost it. Obviously we’ve been a bit preoccupied the last week and a half, and I’d hoped to share this earlier in the month. But I thought I’d go ahead and post it today. My husband wrote this article for our church’s website about…
Read MoreTwo Burning Questions
How are we doing?I think we’re doing fairly well. We’re keeping busy during the day, working to find new homes for Elli’s equipment and supplies, sort out the life insurance questions, figure out how to get the van back that we drove 5 hours away for a conversion (fortunately they hadn’t started yet), and choose…
Read MoreGod’s Lent Child
Elli’s grandma and aunt read this poem at Elli’s memorial service. It was sent to us by a friend, from another friend who had lost a child recently. It expresses well the way we understand parenthood — that we are stewards of the children in our families, not their owners, and that God gives them…
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