grief
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PART 1 When I am frightened, will you reassure me? When I’m uncertain, will you hold my hand? Will you be strong for me, sing to me quietly? Will you share some of your stories with me? Because: When a parent or spouse or partner is soon to die, or has died…. When it…
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To live in this world says the incomparable Mary Oliver you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. It is the central challenge of…
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Metaphors are powerful. Entire cultures fall under their sway. They can put us to sleep, and even as we think we are spiritually and intellectually awake, we are snoring our lives away. It is said that the master metaphor of our culture is the American Dream fantasy of a permanent blue-sky season for busyness and…
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Back from the year 2001, a memory stirs for me. I remember driving down Crockett Road in Palestine, Texas, towards Crockett Road Church of Christ, which was where I had had my first experience of organized religion, all through high school and a year or so into college. But it was years after high school,…
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Today’s story, “A Thanksgiving Wish,” is so beautiful for so many reasons. All the themes it plays out: –The theme of the middle class style of being independent and in your own family bubble and not having to rely on anyone beyond that bubble. But then a perfect storm of some kind happens, and you…
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