This little book is meant for all those who suspect or fear or who have been told for certain that they have a diagnosis that they will not live through, and for all those who love them. It is meant too for all people who woke up one morning feeling older than they used to and couldn’t afford to wonder why, or who got unwanted news about someone they loved […]
Charlotte Sulick | Unkind
We have a joke in my family about sudden death. “She died suddenly.” Doesn’t everyone? You’re alive, and then you aren’t. One moment to the next. It never happens any other way. When my grandmother died it happened that way, too. We went to bed with her alive and we woke up with her dead. “Mimi died.” The light in the hallway turned Mom into a shadow as she swung […]
Wayne Faust | Sailing home
Finally the clouds let go, the rain fell, and the sea swelled. Little Juan raced back and forth on the deck of the boat, laughing, shouting. “Rain, Papa! It’s raining!” The boy used the singsong of small children everywhere. “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. The old man is singing in his sleep! He’s writing a symphony! Si! A symphony!” “Put on your lifeline, Little Juan,” said […]
Atonement | The Power of Making Amends
Atonement…it’s not a word we use much in everyday conversation. Those of us who are “recovering” Catholics or Protestants resist the notion drummed into us since childhood that we are “sinful” and need to “repent” to satisfy a wrathful or pristinely remote God. Conversely, many still-faithful Christians feel no need to “atone.” After all, Christ did that for them. How could they hope to improve upon His ultimate sacrifice? Jews […]
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