Dear Family and Friends: Christmas came to us at Thanksgiving with the arrival of precious family, and the anticipation of our whole family together in December. A fitting ending to an indescribable year. Nevertheless, as I think of you, I want to try to describe it. After my diagnosis in March (severe aortic stenosis—surgery too […]
Meditation: As you read the following familiar words, imagine yourself on the Sea of Galilee. It is still dark. Hear the wind and the thunder; see the lightening and the increasing waves; smell the storm, feel the spray on your face. Battle the head wind and rough sea with the others. Be part of this […]
For me, commitment and love in an intimate relationship are parts of the same thing. Love is the wisteria vine, adding sweetness and beauty to life; Commitment is the structure the vine needs to grow to its greatest capacity. Each without the other is not whole. Many things are called love which do not necessarily […]
CHAPEL TALK – June 17, 1987 I often think of my friend, Ruth, who with openness and honesty let me walk with her part of the way during the last two years of her life. She was dying with lung cancer and I remember one day when we talked of our belief in heaven, of […]
It had been a day of questions: Can my frail little Mama, released so soon from the hospital, make it up the steps in the garage and into the house? How will my Dad and I manage to care for her while I work? What will she need to keep her safe and comfortable while […]
I watched her chest. In and out. In and out. Shallow breaths. “Take a deep breath, Mama.” Her eye lids flicker. She breathes more deeply. Once. “Do it again.” She does. “Oh God, keep her breathing.” Later, when she is stronger, I walk the endless halls. Then back to the chair in her room. My […]
April 20, 2012 “It’s true, Lord Jesus, I can’t see very far ahead. I’m looking to next Tuesday, the 24th when we will see the surgeon. Beyond that, the way is shadowed and the path looks dim. Today I don’t like the heaviness in my chest. I don’t know how much to push today. Truly, […]
When my nephew, David George, asked me to be prayer leader for the La Familia Feliz Seminario (Happy Family Seminar) he and his wife, Lu would hold in her hometown of Chinandega, I was thrilled. Wish I knew Spanish! March 3, 2006 Here I am two days before the start of one of the biggest […]
November, 2004 Today in my comfortable apartment in White Rock, NM, I proclaim a day of mourning. I weep for Marines in Iraq, waiting to attack Falujah, while they remember their fallen comrades, singing “Amazing Grace”, crowded into a meeting place in spite of their commanders desire not to have too many of them together […]
