Anita's Love

Six Months

Greg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:54:16 +0000

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 [...]

God in it all

Greg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:29:26 +0000

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 [...]

Valentine’s Day – the best and the worst

Greg — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:16:39 +0000

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 [...]

Marriage

Greg — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:25:47 +0000

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 [...]

Fear not the future

Greg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:48:11 +0000

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

Greg — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:20:07 +0000

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

Greg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:40:52 +0000

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

Greg — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:39:02 +0000

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

Greg — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:14:54 +0000

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

Greg — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:00:06 +0000

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 [...]