Category: Death Grief and Mourning

To God be the Glory!!

12/23/2014Death Grief and Mourning, Holidays, Prayer, Spiritual Walk, , , , , , , , , , , 4 Comments

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Gloria in excelsis deo! We sing it every year at Christmas – Glory, in the highest to God — and our words proclaim to God the most exalted honor, adoration, praise and thanksgiving!

However, do our hearts align with our words? Do we really praise and adore God when life is hard? Do we give Him thanksgiving and the highest honor no matter our circumstances? Or do we merely sing the words. When life is good, the words reflect our praise. When we are suffering, do we truly mean what we sing?

When Alzheimer’s has robbed a loved one of understanding and mobility. Do you mean it?

When your daughter tells you she’s pregnant continue here

What To Hold On To?

10/17/2014Death Grief and Mourning, Spiritual Walk, , , , , , , , 6 Comments

2014-10-14 16.15I’ve had this basket of flowers for 30 years. They’ve moved with us through six states and now I have to decide, will they go with us on this move.

It’s a hard decision to make. I look at these raggedy flowers that have been sitting on a shelf in a closet in my basement for the past eighteen years, and I remember the morning that Dad gave them to me: it was a Sunday, two days after I’d continue here

Memorial Day

05/23/2014Death Grief and Mourning, Holidays, Spiritual Walk, , , , 4 Comments

 

cropped-flag1 Memorial Day is a day to remember and pay honor to military personnel who have died in the service of our country. I’ve only been to one military funeral; I was 9 or 10 years old and the fallen soldier was the son of my mother’s cousin.

When I was in High School, there was a Memorial Day program that paid tribute to “Gold Star Mothers”. The mother continue reading here

Decoration Day

05/20/2014Death Grief and Mourning, Holidays, Israel, , , , , 6 Comments

post05202014a2Friday begins Memorial Day weekend. When I was a child the Friday before Memorial Day was always the last day of school; but what was really special about Memorial Day was going to the cemetery to decorate graves.

I think most cemeteries in the south find more here