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Posted in main on Dec 28th, 2008
No day could possibly live up the expectations that so many of us put onto Christmas Day. We simply ask too much of a single day. Therefore, I have been blessed this year to celebrate at least 3 days of Christmas. Day One: Christmas Day — mass, John and Daniel frying a turkey out back, [...]
Posted in main on Dec 5th, 2008
On Thanksgiving Day I opened my email to find a note from my husband’s youngest cousin. It was a blessing that I was unaware of what was going on until it was mostly over. She and her fiance were staying on the 15th floor of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai when the terrorist attacks [...]
Posted in main on Nov 20th, 2008
Yesterday was the first day in 3 weeks that I didn’t even think about taking something to make me feel more comfortable in the afternoon… (I had some surgery a little over 3 weeks ago). I’m off the antibiotics, and the stitches, for the most part seem to be healing. I’ve felt a little tired, [...]
Posted in main on Sep 13th, 2008
I’m home again. I’ve been reminded that the most peaceful, glorious place to be is with a baby and/or toddler asleep in your arms. The world is right; the universe is right; God is present. It creates the sense of resting in God – or perhaps God resting with you.
I have a new granddaughter! Ella was born about 1 am Saturday morning. That was joyful news to cap off a week of good news. New babies are so totally unaware of the hope and joy they bear. They just exist, right there in the moment. A new little one, in this strange world of [...]
