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It’s not a matter of faith

From the time at the hospital when the doctor told me she was gone (they really do say “we did everything we could do, but we couldn’t save her” – or maybe he was just watching too much TV), I knew that the cold body lying in the ER was not Anita. Anita had moved [...]

Rick Warren Interview

At the funeral, Anita’s friend Angela read a part of an interview with Rick Warren that Anita had sent to Angela (and me) at the end of June after an especially tough day. The day after she died, I opened her bible,  and the print out of this interview was sticking out. I read it, and [...]

Introduction

The introduction from a book Anita started in July 2006.

Fought the good fight

2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight.
I have finished the race.
I have kept the faith.

For about the last 10 years, Anita took passages that inspired her from the bible, pasted them in big, bold letters on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper and taped them to our walls. Our bedroom, bathroom and office [...]