Faith and Doubt
The Humility of Receiving Help
One of the most hardest lessons I’ve tried to learn (I can’t claim to have learned it yet) is to ask for and receive help. Somewhere along the way, I decided that being a wife and mother means that I alone shoulder all the responsibilities that characterize the perfect wife and perfect mother. I must…
Read MoreDeath as Entertainment
I’m really struggling with the place death has, and does not have, in our society right now – in the USA in the year 2009. So I’m going to think “outloud” here for little while. On the one hand, I think that Americans try our best to avoid serious, real discussions about it. We’d like…
Read MoreSea Water Sinus Rinse
I recently read Anne Lamott’s book “Traveling Mercies,” which is an entertaining collection of essays on her journey to faith and wholeness. It’s very funny and very wise, all mixed together into a delightful snapshot of a real life, cellulite and all. I just so happened to read the chapter/essay entitled “The Aunties” on the…
Read MoreAnger (A continuing series on grief)
Every grief book I’ve read talks about the stage of anger. Some authors assert that everyone goes through every stage, but to varying degrees. Others contend that people don’t necessarily go through each stage or in a specific order. All that to say that I’ve felt anger infrequently… so far. But when I have, the…
Read MoreGains and Losses
When Elli was a baby, we began to discover the full breadth and depth of both her medical challenges and her physical disabilities. We I went through a form of grief over her loss of a “normal” life and our loss of a “normal” girl. Gradually I learned to focus on what she still had,…
Read MoreWordless Wednesday
It reads: “In you, God did something very big with someone very small. Though you could not speak, you knew how to laugh. Your wheelchair is so sadly empty, yet so gloriously empty. We will see you again soon.”
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