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I am sorry for your loss…

A few days ago I finished reading “A Grief Observed”, C.S. Lewis’ journal that he kept immediately after the death of his wife. One of the things that first struck me was from the Foreward by Madeleine L’Engle.

…when two people marry, each one has to accept that one of them will die before the other.

Wow, [...]

Alone with Him

This morning was the worst day for me yet. Maybe it seem apropos that one day this week was the best I’ve had and this day was the worst. Or maybe they came from two different but equally important realizations.

I dropped Julia at school again this morning which provides a perfect early morning opportunity to [...]

End o’ the year thought 2008

This is an email Anita sent to a friend of hers on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:13 PM. It’s from Seth Godin’s Blog (one she followed closely for quite a while).

I don’t think I’ve ever told you this – but this blog post changed my life. This is the blog post I read on the [...]

Why are you afraid of process?

“I think this says a lot about why I struggle,” Anita wrote to me in an email from Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:18 AM. This came from her favorite blog, Seth Godin’s.

Anita was a very intuitive person, and goal oriented. That helped drive her in her early 20s, but later she was searching for something. [...]

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 [...]