“We got to the top of a mountain in the car and found a good place to pull off the road. It started to snow just as we stopped. We took the ashes and Rachel read a little prayer. I said a few words, thanking Mom for all she did for us and telling her we loved her, and t...
The next day, I had to have a follow-up procedure—one that could put me right back into the peril I had faced not 24 hours prior. When it was time to go I brought my spiral to pre-op and flipped through it as they were preparing me for surgery. Just before they wheeled me back...
Over the next 5 years, he had lots of lines, another surgery, a couple of liver biopsies, and significant scarring inside his major blood vessels from his chronic need for total parenteral nutrition and the accompany central lines. His veins became so scarred that we though he might lose ac...
I continued on my journey to building a relationship with the Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). Prayer is powerful and I can tell you that God answers almost all of my prayers ~ sometimes not the exact thing I prayed for, usually much better. And there are times when I wait and ...
Lastly, How about you get to pray for that person who has hurt you, not those long detailed prayers. Start by one sentence prayer, rather mention them to Jesus. Its hard to seek revenge for someone that you just prayed for. Go ahead and try this out on the person who came to mind ...
“The Night” — Written in second person, an eight-year-old learns of his mother’s fallibility when his older brother fails to return home one evening. “There Will Come Soft Rains“ “The Traveler” — Another story about the Munster-ish family in “Homecoming”, related by blood to ...
Ulaanbaatar is not a beautiful city by any means, although the large Buddhist temple on the hill, with its intricately carved gods, demons and prayer wheels draws the eye. Guarding this edifice are hulking stone lions with curly hair, whose gaping mouths are stuffed with real roasted meat on...
Life is short. We seem to think that we’ll live forever. We spend time and money as though we’ll always be here. We buy shiny things as though they matter and are worth the debt and stress of attachment. We put off the so-called “trip of a lifetime” for another year, because...
Life is indeed short David and as experience has it, it takes at least one life changing moment (normally this would be a deathly experience) before one truly alters. For me, I now live in a mode of “.. never having to say ‘I should have..'”. ...
A writer, who had been blinded in an accident as a child, regains his vision as a middle aged adult only to be challenged by a world that has become foreign to him. At first, his miraculous new situation appears to be an answer to a prayer, but Majidi soon shows us how vision can...