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August 2, 2006 - thank you
Thank for you yet another day Lord! I am so grateful for the many ways you have blessed me....
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Time away
Debbie and I rarely had a week or two to get away on vacation. Extended times like that were usually spent visiting friends and family in Ohio or elsewhere. So ... we often did 2 or 3 day weekend...
View ArticleHealing emotional trauma - pages 20 to 24 of my book on Debbie's Journey
I wrote 1200 words this morning on my book about Debbie's battle with cancer and her quest to bring our family to wholeness and unity. I have over 60 pages written so far (the virtue of being on...
View ArticleDebbie's Journey: The Spring of 2007
In the Spring of 2007, Debbie's cancer went into remission and she was able to travel with me and experienced several months of pain free happiness. We went to Gatlinberg TN, to the family farm in Ohio...
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Article 19
I came across this journal entry today as I was scanning in most Debbie's journal for Fall 2007. For some reason, it was very comforting to me to think that Debbie was at peace allowing God to choose...
View ArticleThe Sad Case of Calico the Cat: A Modern Parable
I am going to share this true story as a parable. Or perhaps a metaphor …or an analogy, lol I am not sure which. Most parables are not actually true stories, so I suppose this is more like an analogy....
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sunrise with Fernando Ortega
(Debbie's journal, 10.30.2009) Sunrise, there’s a rooster crowing. I am listening to Fernando Ortega and lifting my thoughts to you. Basking in your goodness and mercy hoping that it...
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Faith and walking on water
(Nov. 3, 2008) Good morning Father, Thank you for another cool wonderful day. You know how much I enjoy them. During then last 3 years, I've constantly thought on what it means you walk in...
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Ripples on the pond
From Debbie's Journal, December 8, 2007Although not as intense as the days immediately following the Neulasta Shot, the low grade pain and nausea still are bothersome. The biggest problem today is...
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I'll be waiting for you ...
I was notified yesterday that I had been nominated for a prestigious university award called the “Worlds Ahead” award. The assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences who read my dissertation...
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Deb's journal Nov. 25 2008 and Psalm 107
From Debbie's Journal, Nov. 25, 2008.I am glad to be alive, thank you, but I find myself so weary. I have been helping care for Jessy and the boys and even though I love them dearly- I feel that I am...
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Thanksgiving 2007
Thank you Lord, for the many blessings you have given me. I don’t deserve such goodness Lord. I feel poor and wretched in so many ways. I do not feel like I have what it takes to do things for...
View ArticleMorning meditations
I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about Debbie … with kind of a weird ‘shock’ I realized that she was gone …. We had talked so much about that eventuality during seven years …. And now the...
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♪ Fightings and fears, within and without ....
This song represents how I feel this morning, especially the "fightings and fears, within and without" part ...♪ Just as I am, though tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubt, fightings and...
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A meaningful person and a high purpose
2014.01.05 John 14My first journal entry of 2014. I read John 14 this morning, “Let not your heart be troubled … trust me!”I talked with Brian E. yesterday. I had told him in an email that I was having...
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Finding Solitude
"All human beings are alone. No other person will completely feel like we do, think like we do, act like we do. Each of us is unique, and our aloneness is the other side of our uniqueness. The question...
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I arise today .... "Faeth Fiada" St. Patrick's Breastplate (originally...
I arise today Through God's strength to pilot me:God's might to uphold me,God's wisdom to guide me,God's eye to look before me,God's ear to hear me,God's word to speak for me,God's hand to guard...
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...and then you were gone
Dust to dust,Ashes to ashes.We met, we loved, we fought, we made up.But most of all, we loved.Back-to-back, we took life head-on.And then you were gone. And my soul wanders on, lost, alone and incomplete.
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June 10, 2010 "I release you"
I have finally found some grace to begin organizing my papers and going through files (about time after almost 2 years!).I came across this letter, which for some reason was not included in the...
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