Still Smiling

I know I spend a lot of time and use a lot of words on this blog exploring the sadness and struggles and grief in my life. But, I also want to say that I don’t do so out of some morbid fascination with or elevation of sadness. I talk about the grief and hard [...]

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Redeems…

…my surroundings
That line from the most recent cyberPsalm at Lingamish has been rumbling through my head since I read it.
When I recently learned some extremely difficult information with complicated implications for people I love deeply, I kept thinking about that plea for my surroundings to be redeemed.
When I sit surrounded by more “I don’t knows” [...]

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Grief and Mourning, In Real Time…

…and living color.
Thank you to each one who contributed your thoughts in response to my questions about grief and mourning, in my last post.
I was asking many of those questions as I examined my own personality and how God speaks peace to me in the context of how I feel and think. I feel things [...]

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Grief and Mourning

Once again, I am thinking about semantics and would appreciate your input. Don’t feel you have to answer all of the questions that follow in order to comment. Any response will be greatly appreciated, whether it directly answers one of the questions or comes at the topic from an angle I have not thought to [...]

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"But He loves me!"

from Stepping Heavenward: One Woman’s Journey to Godliness, by Mrs. E. Prentiss, p. 59.
I was not prepared to be absolutely delighted by a book first published in 1869. A friend had this in a pile of books she was giving away. The book is in the form of a journal written by a young [...]

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