It’s been over a year since he died. Dad, Papa, Dominick, teacher…friend. The list of who he was and who he still is in our lives is much longer than those five words, but they say enough. “Time flies when you’re having fun” and even when you are simply living life. With five kids the [...]
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bravery is for wimps
Posted in Christianity, dads, faith, family, kids, life, tagged Bible, bravery, cancer, Christianity, Dad, faith, family, grief, kids, life, loss, writing on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A life’s last moments…Eternity’s beginning
Posted in faith, tagged cancer, Christianity, Dad, death, faith, family, Jesus, life, thankful on March 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The Word came from the highest authority. Passed to a runner with wings, the message was sent down through the veiling mist into time and space. It was followed swiftly by a company of warriors, dressed in their finest array. They were blinding in their might, but hushed in their approach. The warriors circled round [...]
A Door of Hope
Posted in faith, tagged Bible, Christianity, Dad, explaining death to kids, faith, family, Jesus, kids, life, thankful on February 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
How can I tell them? my two little butterfly girls. Papa is slowly leaving us. But now the slow seems fast and I am trying to catch up with my words. words that I cannot find. The thirteen year old knows that life ends and begins again. But she is asking questions far beyond her [...]
“He who pursues righteousness and loyalty…
Posted in christian family, Christianity, faith, tagged Bible, cancer, Christianity, Dad, faith, family, Jesus, life, missionaries, thankful on February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
finds life, righteousness, and honor.” Proverb 21:21 How do we honor a man of God whose time here is fading, whose body is slowly ceasing function? Around the world people are praying, awakened in the night with Dad on their hearts. It is truly an amazing thing to see and experience – being carried by prayer. [...]
tears unwept – an evening with Dad
Posted in faith, tagged blessed, cancer, Christianity, Dad, encouragement, faith, family, Jesus, Psalm 23, thankful on January 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I press my hand to his forehead. For love, for a temperature check, for a prayer. And he willingly allows me the honor, his daughter-in-law checking him over. This is Grace. And I pray silently, quietly as I kneel beside the couch where he lays shifting with pain and disease. His wife stretches out her [...]
Sunday run amuck
Posted in faith, tagged Christianity, cleaning tip, Dad, faith, family, farm, funny, gross, humor, kids, laundry, life, mother on October 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sunday - a day of rest. Time to unwind and relax together as a family, right? RIGHT??? I was just beginning to ease myself into a new magazine, having enjoyed church, braved the grocery shopping, and done the dinner when our little girls knocked and called out at the back door… “Mooom, Daaad! We fell into a mud pit!” [...]
Diddy? Yes he did – how I got my Dad
Posted in birthdays, christian family, Christianity, dads, encouragement, faith, family, humor, Jesus, kids, life, tagged birthday, blended families, blessed, Christianity, Dad, encouragement, faith, family, Father's day, humor, life, thankful on April 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My father is thousands of miles away from me today. I cannot be there with him so I am taking a moment in time to tell the world – however many might be reading - what he means to me. I wrote this a couple of years ago, but it has stood the test of time and [...]
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