In memory of my Mom, who is now healthy and happy

Working on this tonight, to be shared at my Mom’s funeral this weekend
Some of my earliest memories of Mom are her washing dishes at the sink at our house in Delaware. She would wash dishes and sing. I heard my mother sing songs that I didn’t hear anywhere else. If a [...]

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Addictions

I’ve been asked to think about my mother’s eulogy. It occurs to me that she might be a “forgivaholic.” Which, if you’re going to be any flavor of “-aholic,” is probably not among the worst you could be. I don’t think God will say to anyone, “You forgave too many times! [...]

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Not to be Confused with the “Blue Plate Special”

I recently sent out an email to some IRL friends with the subject line, “because I didn’t have quite enough on my plate.”
My pastor wrote back that she hoped I’d be able to feel not so much that my plate was full, but that my cup runneth over.
My Mom remains in the hospital. [...]

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Sunday Post

Stumbled across this video this morning, after reading a news story about this kid’s dad, watching on his laptop from Afghanistan. It’s a good prayer for Memorial Day weekend:

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What I am doing these days when I’m not blogging

I’m emailing. And phone calling. A lot. Here’s this afternoon’s emails. I put them in normal prose order, i.e., you don’t have to read them bottom to top, as you would if I’d lifted them directly from email. The woman corresponding with me is a 70-something cousin, I don’t know [...]

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A Mother’s Day

For the second time in three weeks, I walked up to my mother’s bedside, in a place not her home, and my heart sank. “Oh my God, this is it. She is dying.”
It’s been two weeks since my last visit, and she’s so much smaller. My strong and busy mom [...]

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