I’ve been yearning for a spotlight. I don’t mean a brash stage light, as in “Light me up for all the world to see!” (Far from it these days.) But what I want is a massive overhead floodlight. I want one that will illuminate the entire path in front of me so I can see…
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Sequestered Good Friday
As we can all feel, we were not made for this keening loneliness.
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#MeTooJesus
(Originally published in The Redbud Post, 9.1.19) A lovely young woman sits across from me in my small therapy office, buttoned up so tight it looks like she’s hardly even breathing. Her lips are pressed together as she carefully folds, then refolds, the clean Kleenex on her lap. Then she stops, looks up at me,…
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Insistent Life
If you could peek into my heart on this fifth anniversary of my husband Steve’s death, it would look something like the neighborhood I walked through the other day.
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Redemption
We have slowly found our way to a measure of redemption.
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Half Full
…where does a person even begin to figure out how it all works, now that everything has changed?
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Still Standing
Seeing them in this victimized state was just as shocking as it would be to see our beloved Snoopy with a black eye.
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Free
…she chose to focus on the one and only positive aspect of his death: his freedom.
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11:59
If I have any say in the matter, I will not take a step forward.
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Out of the Picture
“When I look at this photo, I see the man behind the camera…”
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