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Lent 2019: Dreading the unexpected, even when it’s expected.
(Image Source) Last month, my mom was admitted to the hospital for a list of reasons: kidney stones, a urinary tract infection, dehydration, anemia, and the flu. When my brother…
March 10, 2019 -
Lent- Day 36: Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?
My palms from Sunday, twisted into a cross. Please note, I have no idea how to do this and just kept bending until I got this. On Sunday at church, we…
April 12, 2017 -
Lent- Palm Sunday: Hosanna
(Image Source: Youtube) Happy Palm Sunday! Today’s song is Israel Haughton’s “Hosanna”. I hope you have a blessed Holy Week. Please remember to say a prayer for our Coptic Brothers and…
April 9, 2017 -
Lent- Day 2: More Glorious.
(Google CC Image: link) I was feeling pretty low on the general state of humanity yesterday, and rightfully so. Today’s Scripture reading of Romans 8:22 shows just how deep our stinkiness…
March 2, 2017 -
Until you return to the ground.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your fooduntil you return to the ground, since from it you were taken;for dust you are and to dust you will return.” -Genesis 3:19 Ash…
March 1, 2017 -
Lent- Day 31: Let it be to me.
“Paolo de Matteis – The Annunciation” by Paolo de Matteis (Wiki Commons) Today is the Feast of the Annunciation. For those unfamiliar, from Wikipedia: The Feast of…
March 25, 2015 -
Lent- Day 30: For whom the bell tolls.
(Wiki Commons) So I am totally being lazy in the Soren Kierkegaard class I’m taking. Assigned to read Plato’s “Euthyphro”, I haven’t been able to read more than a few…
March 24, 2015 -
Lent- Day 29: Before one of them came to be.
(Source) Momma Kathy is busy, with the help of Monica, arranging Daddy’s funeral. I don’t know how she’s doing it. I haven’t been sleeping well for over…
March 24, 2015 -
Lent- Days 27 & 28: We’ll always love Big Poppa.
My daddy passed away today a few minutes after one P.M. Defying expectations, he survived over two days off the respirator, which makes perfect sense knowing how big his heart…
March 21, 2015 -
Lent- Day 26: Waiting.
We sat today, waiting. Waiting for my dad to die. He was moved to hospice this week, and a little after 11 this morning, they shut off the respirator. My…
March 20, 2015
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