Love uncovers joy amid the rubble of grief

October 13, 2012

“It’s not about me.” said Sara. “It’s not about me.” This is part 2 of my recounting of Sara’s funeral service. Part one is here. Would you consider beginning there and then coming back here?   The second Scripture reading was from Peter’s Pentecost sermon in Acts 2. It’s like a Psalm re-mix of King […]

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Love is believing, living, blinking out, then living still

October 8, 2012

source Sara’s funeral is today… and this is a heavy post… you know… I’m like that sometimes. ♥✞ღ I wrote this a year ago on Deep into Scripture. Sarah is gone, but still living. I don’t want to forget. ♥✞ღ I find myself thinking about the flow of time… oncoming, then here, then just past […]

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Love reaches for the high branches

October 5, 2012

Laska the Love Kitty has recently taken to climbing trees. He likes the ground – all firm, and secure and reliable. But he hearts being in the branches, the higher point of view, the adventure. See that tail in the air? That’s a happy tail. But as much as he likes the branches – that […]

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Love is greater than the universe, and so are we

October 3, 2012

source We are like all we see. We are unlike all we see. When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place… Sun, moon, stars, sky, air, trees, dirt, worms, molecules, bricks, birds, breezes. What is man that you are mindful of him, and a […]

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Love is sometimes paradox

October 1, 2012

source It has been a year since Sara left this earth. I wrote this last year on Deep into Scripture. I do not want to forget. Sara is dying… and I can’t look away… and I feel the dark doorway… eternal joy on the other side… but approaching the door… I think it’s this… Then […]

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Love is the faith of a child

September 28, 2012

source What Sara is facing… so will we all… to finish the race well… to die so to live. *I wrote this one year ago, on Deep into Scripture. as this world lost Sara. When death touches life you can’t help but think of eternity. It’s going to happen to all of us. So I […]

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Love believes beyond the dark doorway | Remembering Sara

September 26, 2012

source I wrote this last year, as Sara was believing…and dying… while she stood directly in front of the dark doorway. And she believed. And I should believe. And we should believe. Love believes beyond the dark doorway ♥✞ღ The tears are fewer now. I get distracted so easily. But when I write of Sara […]

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