Earning My Eulogy
“I want to earn my eulogy. So someday in my children’s past, They’ll remember me as I wished I could be.”
Category: Writing
Little Ethel: A Christmas Story of Faith and Family
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Reproductive Equality
To color his barrier to success and wealth With the threat of death.
To throw down his worst and call it my best. To claim equal if I Step down where he stands. Beneath me where he lives, Outside of Eden, That lone, cold man.
Dinner Guests
And reason bids me obey
The law-giving Jehovah,
With the exact obedience
Of the law-living Christ.
Cathedrals
“I turn at the latch to see her,
Standing old, broken and creaking in places,
The weight of faith alone
To keep her still standing…”
Simplicity After Complexity
“…She doesn’t know yet,
Not in the extremity of her discomfort,
Where all the sick, all the mess, all the need
Goes when it leaves her body, her mouth,
Her heart.
She doesn’t see how it sticks to you…”
Marilla, My Joy
And when you discover,
As we all have done,
That life is balanced between the love and fear,
The hope and the despair,
The questions and the faith,
We will be there to hold you, lift you,
Carry your heart, and tend your soul
With our tears, laughter, and love.
Recycled Hearts
“This is what love looks like when you make room in your heart for the one you love to struggle, suffer, grow and change, and still have a place there. Middle age is the birthplace of lifelong lovers.”
Mindful of Little Miracles
We look for the big events in our lives to label miracles. The deus ex machina events that sweep into our lives and save us from our situations. But that hasn’t been my experience with miracles.
Loyalty
“It is my sincere hope that loyalty becomes a defining factor in our hearts and in our society. I see too much of separation, disinterest, and self-interest in the world. I see individuals who are so dedicated to their own progression and success that they forget that they are not solitary travelers in this world. I see people so hurt by the betrayal of false friends that they become afraid to offer loyalty again. But we must. We must reach sideways, regardless of rejection, again and again if necessary, until we become truly united in heart and mind.”