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Fragments of Grace 2: 06/25/16

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Fragments of Grace 2. Saturday, June 25, 2016. My Fantasy Life with a Mother. My personal experience, which I do not claim to be a universal one, was that after my mother died when she was 28 and I was seven, life went on, and I came to accept the new normal fairly quickly. What an astonishing thought! How had I missed that idea? I would have grown up in Florida, to which my parents were trying to move from Ohio. I would have grown up TWO BLOCKS FROM THE BEACH, where they had built a house. I would have ...

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Fragments of Grace 2: 08/10/16

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Fragments of Grace 2. Wednesday, August 10, 2016. Some years ago, a young man stopped me after church. His little daughter played happily in an empty pew behind us. “How will I know," he asked, “when the time comes – how will I know the difference between typical adolescent angst and something more sinister, something life-threatening? 8221; His sister, a young adult, had died of suicide; his father, grief-stricken, had followed her five years later. Need you to be present in our lives? Eight years. ...

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Fragments of Grace 2: 07/07/16

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Fragments of Grace 2. Thursday, July 7, 2016. Falling Out of Time A Stunning Chronicle of Parental Grief (Book Review). From the first page, I knew that this is a book in a category of its own. No . . . from the title, which I saw when I stumbled across it in a bookstore last week: I immediately guessed the topic, as we who have lost our children are the ones who speak of having fallen out of time. Lament for a Son. At first, the narative/poem/song/lament reminded me of Thornton Wilder's. I cannot recomm...

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Fragments of Grace 2: 04/22/16

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Fragments of Grace 2. Friday, April 22, 2016. RevGals Friday Five from Monica. Is about houses, spurred by her first home purchase:. 1 What is the most important room in your home? What requirements do you have of this room? Sure, you can answer “bathroom,” but we can stipulate that as a reasonable assumption and you can pick the second most important room). 2 What is the least important room in your home? The one you use the least, or are not very picky about? My friends of 30 years are here. 4 If your ...

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Fragments of Grace 2: Inward Journey (Sermon)

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Fragments of Grace 2. Sunday, July 10, 2016. Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:38-42). I had another sermon planned and prepared. I had a plan. And then I read an essay by a friend whose white stepson is a law enforcement officer in Florida, and about how she recognizes the risks of his life, and the lives of...

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Fragments of Grace 2: Eight

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Fragments of Grace 2. Wednesday, August 10, 2016. Some years ago, a young man stopped me after church. His little daughter played happily in an empty pew behind us. “How will I know," he asked, “when the time comes – how will I know the difference between typical adolescent angst and something more sinister, something life-threatening? 8221; His sister, a young adult, had died of suicide; his father, grief-stricken, had followed her five years later. Need you to be present in our lives? Eight years. ...

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Fragments of Grace 2: 05/13/16

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Fragments of Grace 2. Friday, May 13, 2016. School Daze Friday Five. Mictori says, "Let’s reflect upon our school days in today’s Friday Five". 1 Favorite class during your many years of school? A graduate course in Ignatian Spirituality, back when I was working on a master's in Humanities, and before I knew that I was going to transfer a lot of those credits to a seminary! That course was one of those which set me on a path toward an entirely unexpected future. 2 Toughest class you have taken? And I was...

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Fragments of Grace 2: Falling Out of Time ~ A Stunning Chronicle of Parental Grief (Book Review)

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Fragments of Grace 2. Thursday, July 7, 2016. Falling Out of Time A Stunning Chronicle of Parental Grief (Book Review). From the first page, I knew that this is a book in a category of its own. No . . . from the title, which I saw when I stumbled across it in a bookstore last week: I immediately guessed the topic, as we who have lost our children are the ones who speak of having fallen out of time. Lament for a Son. At first, the narative/poem/song/lament reminded me of Thornton Wilder's. I cannot recomm...

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Fragments of Grace 2: 04/30/16

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Fragments of Grace 2. Saturday, April 30, 2016. Loss, 7.66. Target. I am leaving for a weeklong training tomorrow. I need cat litter, some snacks, some Advil. I see a flowing summer dress and jacket that would look great on my girl if she likes it so I toss them into the cart. One of maybe my top ten things, picking up gifts for her. She doesn't always appreciate my taste, but I do it anyway. Sometimes it works out. I look at the noodles and beach towels. I want my boy back. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).