A Funeral Sermon at Christmas

A Funeral Sermon at Christmas

[REPOST: This was originally posted on my previous blog in December of 2014 for the one-year anniversary of my grandfather’s death. The response has been so overwhelming over the years I am posting it again this Advent season.] This is the sermon I wrote for and...

O Come, O Come

Between working from home, basic hygiene, nourishment needs, relational needs, the holidays, oh…being pregnant, a one-year old, volunteering…yeah, I don’t seem to have time for my writing luxury these days. I have missed you all! Thanks for being patient and...

I don’t want to go that deep.

I feel like I really liked Elsa up until about two weeks ago. Recently, things have been challenging. Not so much because of the sleeping, the eating, or even the crawling…but because of the needing. She seems to fancy little else than me.  I can’t make reason to it,...

Death by Death

Arriving, I drop immediately to my knees, instinctively brushing away the earth from carved stone.  Outlining every word with my fingers I remember our baby boy. Re-membering our family…the entirety therein.  We are all there together. All members.Grass,...

Arms Flung

It’s like a force field I am forcibly resisting. Though its power is greater than mine, I am strangely able to resist. Its as if it is calling me to open wide my hands, my arms outstretched and walk in…chest first. The closer I get the more difficult it is to resist;...