You feel like it is a deviant character flaw to experience hopelessness and despair, that… Read the postHammering out scripture is easy, meeting hopelessness is not.
I missed the 80’s, I was doing unvirgin things like getting married and having babies.… Read the postLike A Virgin
I love when people ask questions about grief and how to respond to someone who… Read the postSupportive listening for grievers? Leave the God talk alone.
Four years. We are on the other side of the fourth anniversary now, we observe… Read the postThings that still surprise me after four years of child loss.
We buried Justin on the Feast Day of the Guardian Angels, October 2, 2010. I… Read the postFour years ago today we buried a boy. Rediscovering the gift of words from the funeral Mass.
We jokingly look at the animals sometimes when they are denied a choice bit of… Read the postWhat suffering has taught me, and why I don’t say “Offer it up.”
I think a lot. I think about God, His nature, who He is, who I… Read the postGod Memes, Sound Bites, and Roast Chicken
I found a small collection of notes I had taken at the first workshop at… Read the postAnd I thought “What are we doing here?”