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When Your Life Story Doesn’t Pack Up Neatly
The candles flickered on the coffee table in the evening light, their subtle ways bringing a warmth to the quiet living room. Familiar scents of cotton and laundry filled the air. Nearly 4 decades of favourites filled her ears with…
When The Tree Lights Sing
Our house has been loud with love these last few weeks of December, but tonight, as the little’s sleep after a wild day of excitement, the quiet of the tree calls to me. I’ve felt it drawing me now for…
Pregnant with grief, God birthed mercy and compassion
As we celebrate Nathaniel’s 4th birthday this week my mind and heart have gone back to his pregnancy and birth again and again. In January 2011 I had returned to Haïti for the first time after experience the earthquake in…
all in a Christmas bulb
New Years Eve is tomorrow, the kids are finally asleep, Christmas lights twinkling and I’m feeling reflective. I love to be reflective -odd duck that I am- perhaps it’s my newly acquired old age, my old soul, or just the…
Reflecting on Häiti
February 27, 2011 Reflecting on Häiti: A Sisterhood of Understanding Mike asked us all an interesting question tonight at supper. Did you have a “moment” when things changed for you here in Häiti? It was a question I hadn’t really…
