I made crosses out of the palm leaves we got this past Palm Sunday and put them up in the “new” house this weekend. Kevin and the boys buried the remaining strings and pieces that had fallen off the fronds. (Since they’re blessed, we can’t just throw them away.) Kevin dug a hole and put [...]
I posted on Twitter last week that I could probably work 24 hours a day and still not feel caught up. It’s not that I don’t love my job. I do. I’m where I need to be, right where God wants me. But it’s way too easy to sink back under all that paperwork, that [...]
I know the sky is beyond the branches, even though I can only see it in splotches, in tiny pieces of the enormous whole. My limited perception doesn’t change the reality, the truth. It simply is, whether I see it in its full glory or not. The rest is where faith comes in.
If you’re gonna run, make sure it’s in the right direction. ;)
When he seems distant and blurry, it’s not about him, but me. Time for a vision adjustment.
Today was the birthday of two very important people to us: my son Cody, who was stillborn 12 years ago, and Kevin’s grandfather, Lawrence Simpson, who died in 1991. In memory, we spent a while this evening at the two separate cemeteries, on opposite ends of the city, sharing flowers and memories and prayers.
Last year sometime, we got a DVD in the mail from the monks at Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma, northeast of Tulsa. It shows them going through their days: praying, singing, and working. “Ora et Labora” is one of their mottos: Pray and work. We have no idea why we were sent this. We probably [...]
“Mommy, if I could be president, I would make it a law that nobody could kill any more babies.” ~Lucas Dalton, age 7
