My mother Grace is in her 83rd year and it would be completely understandable and deserved, if at this age, she chose to spend her days relaxing, napping, or reading for hours. And, while she does spend some time doing all three, much of her time is spent truly ‘living’; a rich life filled with family, friends, daily activities and evening social events, and opportunities to learn something new.
Faith Comes Through Doubting
By questioning what I had been taught, by doubting God because of my past, I came to a certainty that had been missing earlier with my faith.
Human Touch and the Elderly and Dying
Guest Author and caregiver Jeannie Thomas shares her insights about the gifts of human touch.
A Congenital Life: Part 5 of 5
The pale boy before her seemed so delicate, a drop of rain might dissolve him. “Don’t you think that would be a selfish thing to do, taking your own life?”
Being Self-Employed
Guest author Jeffrey Griffiths talks about what a person may not consider about self-employment. The ins and outs of working for yourself.
A Congenital Life: Part 4 of 5
She wanted to tell him, I married you because you held the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right – I could imagine us comfortable on holiday in Paris, you in easy conversation with the natives. I don’t feel anything like love for your fork and knife tonight.
A Congenital Life: Part 3 of 5
The boy didn’t flinch when she placed the cold steel on the warm, rice paper flesh of his arm, surprisingly damp against her fingertips. She counted. Calculated. One-twenty. Racing.
Finding True NORTH
What if instead of raising children, we raised them UP – to the light, to stand up and face forward?
A Congenital Life: Part 2 of 5
She registered nothing about his mother who held his hand and led him to the big comfy chair upholstered in soft leather where he perched without making an indentation, his legs straight as crutches, the insides of both thighs turbulent with burn scars.
The Shoes of the Fisherman
This 1968 film, with its idealized vision of a truly humble and charitable pope, is worth watching in light of events in the Catholic Church today.
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