Lasting Words: Psalm 139
What Sacred Scripture do you want read at your funeral? Continuing with the divinely inspired words that I want to share with those who will grieve my death, whenever that … Continue Reading Lasting Words: Psalm 139
Lasting Words: The Book of Wisdom
Sacred Scripture on Beauty and Truth…. For the first reading at my funeral (read more about that HERE) I would like these words from The Book of Wisdom proclaimed. This … Continue Reading Lasting Words: The Book of Wisdom
Leaving with These Words
Last year, I had several health challenges that reminded me, yet again, of how fragile and fleeting my life is. Having been born with a rare disease and living all … Continue Reading Leaving with These Words
Just One
Sometimes, I feel so small. This planet is far too large for me to understand, with way too many people for my mind to comprehend. What does 7 billion mean? … Continue Reading Just One
For the Feast of All Hallows: The Saint Maker
Originally posted on Christina Chase:
After I had chosen, intellectually, to become a Christian, but way before I had embraced Christ in my heart, a priest told me that I…
Respecting Death: an Odd Family Tradition
I’m a stickler for family traditions. Therefore, as I told my doctor, my preferred way to die is of some kind of cardiac incident in a church. That was how … Continue Reading Respecting Death: an Odd Family Tradition
Life with Dignity: a Personal Plea against Assisted Suicide
Saint Augustine wrote, “it is never licit [right] to kill another: even if he should wish it, indeed if he request it because, hanging between life and death, he begs … Continue Reading Life with Dignity: a Personal Plea against Assisted Suicide
On Mass Killings and Respecting Life
I want to help build a culture of life. My vocation, I believe, is to inspire and foster respect for human life, compassion for every human being, and recognition of … Continue Reading On Mass Killings and Respecting Life
On Redemptive Suffering
A friend told me fairly recently that she thinks of me when she reads Colossians 1:24. Yes, I admit, I had to look it up… “Now I rejoice in my … Continue Reading On Redemptive Suffering
With Open Face Beholding
Originally posted on Bible Bursts:
Lord, change me, make me new. Make me like you! – the plea of the sunflower. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Now the Lord is that Spirit:…
Joy of Heaven
When I was going through my cancer scare, a friend of mine asked me to pray for her friend who had just been told that his leukemia was terminal. And … Continue Reading Joy of Heaven
Good News
As I was heading out of church, I knew. I am healed. It didn’t come like a bolt out of the blue or a disembodied voice, or like some televangelist … Continue Reading Good News
The Cancer Question and Being Wary of Hope
August 9th is nearing. And that’s when I’m supposed to find out whether or not I have cancer. Statistically, I probably don’t, since the kind of cancer that we’re talking … Continue Reading The Cancer Question and Being Wary of Hope
A year later
Originally posted on albits:
STILL GONE Where’s Charlie now– His train left a year ago today. I was too late to see him off. Still I pictured him waving as…
The Unknown
How are you with the unknown? Me… Not so good. I mean, I love wonder and awe, and am willing to sublimely surrender to the unknowable, to Mystery… But, when … Continue Reading The Unknown
It Is What It Is… But What Is It?
Facing a forbidding possibility in my life… I hear people say something a lot, which, I admit, rather bugs me: “It is what it is,” they will say when something … Continue Reading It Is What It Is… But What Is It?
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