Good morning... When I arrived at our therapeutic community group at PAWkids yesterday morning, I didn't know what "blob" from the "blob tree" described how I felt (this is a check-in ritual we share each week). My emotions were deeply muddled. I had just received a return text from a close friend who lives in Athens, Georgia, and, [...]
Good morning... As quiet ripples of moonlight rest on our bathroom floor, I snap a photo and prepare to write in the middle of this night. First, I open an email my husband and I had discussed yesterday. Reading Steve's words with my own eyes makes the many layers of loss feel much more real. "Dear Israel Trip [...]
Good morning... "Not good news," I was saddened by my friend's text. "The cancer is in her spine, hip, lymph nodes, base of her skull. I'm not sure where we go from here. Marleigh's spirits are good. I'm still taking it day by day. I fall apart when I get ahead of myself. I love you and am [...]
Good morning... I puppy-sat briefly while my friend ran to the store. On the counter I noticed a pile of pink napkins. "In a world where you can be anything..." they read. "Be kind." The word "kind" drew me back to a page from the book I met face to face yesterday. Then the word "kind" brought me [...]
Good morning... Very graciously she said to me, "I don't want to open your blog and hear about negative stuff happening in your community. Cancer. Suicide. Tragedy after tragedy. I have enough hurting people struggling around me. I don't need your painful experiences piling on mine, dragging me down. I read your morning messages hoping to be inspired, [...]
Good morning... Before Saturday's memorial service for a young man who is deeply missed, one of his high school friends did her healing part to share the words on her heart, offering a touching tribute to her three classmates who have died since their graduation in 2017. Here are segments of her loving words. ****** We sat in the [...]
Good morning... "Sweet Sue," a mom wrote to me yesterday. "While I absolutely related to yesterday’s post very well, today’s title got me right in the gut. I really didn’t have to read anymore. Your timing. God’s timing. My son was in the Greek Village yesterday at the University of South Carolina when the student who took his [...]
Good morning... Our posts from this week start and end with a video of a statue created by God through the young hands of Michaelanglo. The statue is named the Pieta, which is an Italian term for pity (compassion, commiseration, condolence, sorrow, sadness, sympathy). It is a sculpture depicting Mary lamenting over the lifeless body of her son Jesus resting in [...]
Good morning... The nineteen year old son of a family in our community did not wake up yesterday, the morning after he had routine surgery to remove his appendix. Having a nineteen year old ourselves, I can not imagine the excruciating pain of his parents. Our seventeen year old son goes to school with the grieving brother and [...]
