Today I talked to a mom who was struggling. It was a hidden grief. But it was still there, simmering under the surface. And as we talked about our children, we crossed the line of her grief. And I said entirely the wrong thing. I’ve read a lot of blogs and articles recently about ‘what not to say’...
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Random Randomness
Because all of these things happened in my world recently… I had to rummage through the garbage today looking for a receipt. Then I prayed about finding it. Then I found it. Nowhere near the garbage. Shoulda prayed first. 😉 For the first time in ages, I pulled out the carpet cleaner. Because our...
I Just Don’t Know
I saw the picture of a little boy whose life ended in water, a failed attempt by his refugee family to find a place of openness. He was the same size as my Timmy. And I cried for him, for orphans in Africa, for little boys and girls in the States who will not...
Little Things
The opening to an article I read recently referred to the explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle. He said this: After months of investigation, here’s what the Rogers Commission…discovered: an o-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster failed at take-off. I won’t bore you with the details, but an o-ring is a small...
Howling
Everyone else got a piece of mail. Except her (and Timmy, but oddly enough, he didn’t count into her equation). So she was howling. Head tipped back, mouth open, letting loose an ear-splitting, can’t-be-heard-over-it, stream of sound. Now this is not an unusual sound for my four-year-old to make these days. It typically results...