Category: The Library
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For today…
… simple today. Outside my open window…birds chirping in a harmonious call and response… neighbor mowing spring’s early growth. I am thinking…about generosity and how we are all human. I am thankful for…children who are faithful to serve when asked, a cozy bed for after-chemo recovery, technology that connects when we can’t be together, porch […]
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World Cancer Day
Midnight Cancer is a bottomless pit where voices echo around and around endlessly repeating the same prayer: oh God… Sooner or later, midnight cancer changes to morning cancer, brighter, more hopeful. Somewhere in the sun rises warm and round. Birds are singing. After a while, morning cancer melts into afternoon cancer where it hides among […]
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Home
This morning I woke and my first thought was of my Ash, my boy whom, after an ectopic pregnancy that shattered us, we were told would be close to a miracle to have. But, at the risk of sounding cliche, isn’t all life a miracle? He arrived almost three hours after his due date and […]
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The Song the Birds Are Singing
This morning I found myself getting all verklempt as I sifted through memories from Facebook and iPhotos. I do love that feature in those apps—a sweet reminder of days gone by. It’s a date that will live in infamy—today being the 77th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. And several years ago I had made six dozen […]
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No Bad Endings
It seems the past month has held wave after wave of life crashing around us. We’ve reeled and pitched with the tossing of each wave, but our ship holds fast, because our Father holds us. We tell each other this… look at what is true. I hear it from my Brian. I hear it from […]
A Spring of Joy 