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Anita died six months ago today. Six months. It’s weird to say it. Is it weird to hear it? How could that much time have passed? I can recall that day like it was yesterday (not that I always want to). I remember sitting at home a few days after she died and thinking to myself [...] I’ve got to stop thinking “I need to get away from it all”. That’s the thinking that leads me to follow the Devil’s temptations and distract myself from God and His purpose for me. I need to try to see God in it all. Brother Lawrence described doing everything for God “with an even, uninterrupted composure and tranquility [...] This is my first Valentine’s Day without Anita since 1993. It is very tempting to be sad, another lonely single person detesting the day of love and romance. I’ll try not to dwell too much on that instead reflecting on Valentine’s Days past.Anita and I agreed early on that this was a manufactured holiday, but [...] With Valentine’s Day coming up tomorrow, I have seen a lot of articles this week about marriage (maybe that is surprising – we might expect to see a lot of articles about love). This article in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution said we should commit to marriage itself more than the other person; this one said we need [...] 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; 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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