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Fear not the future

I found this free floating note card in a box of papers and things. Anita has written on it in black Sharpie:

Fear not the future;
God is already there.

This one was something of a mystery to me – not what it meant but what it meant to Anita and in what context.

A Google search [...]

Penny’s 2nd birthday

Today is Penny’s 2nd birthday. I have made it through Julia’s birthday, Anita’s birthday, Ben’s birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and now it is Penny’s birthday. Every holiday is hard.

I was sitting at my older daughter’s school program last night and thinking that two years ago at that time I was driving Anita to [...]

Difficulties concerning faith

In Anita’s book The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith, Anita underlined this paragraph in chapter six, “Difficulties concerning faith”.

You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly, [...]

Love letter #3

June 2, 1993 9:57 pm

Hi! I wish you’d call. I just finished reading every piece of mail and/or note you gave me. There’s 8 total including B-day & valentines cards, a napkin note on my car at Amigos, two notes left on my bed, a paper plate and last but not least, you most recent [...]

Your life is your ministry

Inside the front cover of Anita’s book Secrets in the Dark by Frederick Buechner, she wrote some notes. This one jumped out at me this morning:

11/27/06

You have only one decision to make: to follow God or not.

If you choose to follow God, you cannot fail.

Your life is your ministry.

It’s no secret and no [...]

The Darrow Scholarship

After Anita was accepted to the University of Michigan Law School in fall of 1995, she was invited to submit an application for the prestigous Darrow Scholarship. Here is how the school describes it:

Of all the merit scholarships awarded by the University of Michigan Law School, the Darrow is the apogee. The award of a [...]

Why do you want to go to law school?

I finally found this essay! One of the best things Anta ever wrote, I thought. Dated October 5, 1995, this was an essay answering the question “Why do you want to go to law school?” I remember she sent it to the University of Michigan – and helped win her a full scholarship.

 

Racism. It is [...]

Avoiding negative influences

The most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people

Going through a stack of note cards, this one jumped out at me. Turns out this is part of a quote from Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich (1937). Here’s [...]

Death certificate, coroner’s report

When Anita passed away, they doctor’s told me there seemed to me “nothing physically wrong” with her. But how could someone in seemingly good health and having just had a doctor’s checkup and blood tests four days previous suddenly die?

We had to wait four and a half months for the death certificate because the coroner’s [...]

Accept the situation

(I just found this on Anita’s computer dated 4/26/09. I’m sure she was reading this to reinforce her lessons on acceptance. However, it is from an article about overcoming grief – link at the bottom. Reading this made me shiver.)

2) ACCEPT THE SITUATION
When you truly, deeply accept the situation, and I mean accept it as if you [...]