Sometimes Life is Too Hard and You Need to Step Away Christmas is finally over. Whew! I’m glad, because this year I boycotted the holiday. Things Go Wrong It was one year ago today that Brad and I were supposed to fly into Sarasota, Florida and to begin our five vacation days of enjoying ourselves … Read more
The Change in Social Standing In the late 1970s researchers completed a simple research study the shocked the world with its findings. They gave a list of descriptors, such as outgoing, strong, moody, weak, and independent, to their sample group and requested that the subjects select from the provided list of attributes qualities that would … Read more
Sometimes Life is Hard to Live I bet you aren’t surprised you haven’t read anything new from me in nearly three months. Yeah, I have posted updates and comments from time to time on my Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/LivingLife2theFullestSeries), but when it came to putting something down on paper here, I kept hitting a wall. No, … Read more
Death as a Transition As I look out of Trillium Woods’ window from Brad’s room, it is peaceful. This same word would currently apply to him. He has been very quiet and at peace the past fourteen hours as he sleeps nearly around the clock. Yesterday, during one of his brief periods of alertness, he … Read more
Feeling Loved by the Followers of Christ It was just ten days ago when my husband was wheeled out an operating room. His digestive system had been dissected and reconstructed to remove the growing cancerous mass. Once a strong man, now Brad easily tires. Until yesterday, standing, walking, and taking care of his own basic … Read more
My Life is Coming Apart with this Change Right now I am sitting beside the hospital bed of my beloved husband, Brad. He was re-admitted a few days ago when the growing tumor in his duodenum made drinking thin liquids impossible. Today a feeding tube was inserted which has created a whole new set of … Read more
When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our … Read more
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