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    When Someone Else Needs Rain

    January 2, 2019
    When Someone Else Needs Rain

    St. Louis, Missouri, has some of the most extreme weather I have ever experienced. Spring, Summer, and Fall’s thunderstorms were terrifying. Straight-line winds often preceded by howling gusts that bent even the oldest oak trees over, accompanied the darkest black or grayish-green skies. Lightning, splintering the horizon, shook the earth as if it had no substance at all.

    The winters were hardly any better. Bleak skies dominated the landscape, and even though we didn’t get the volume of snowfall we did when living in Massachusetts, the brutal temperatures of the season trumped all. I remember school being cancelled one day because the wind chill was double digits below zero.

    So it is no wonder, when I was pregnant with my third child who was due in February, that I carried around worry when thinking about the possible scenarios of making the trip to the hospital.

    The same held true when I fretted about how I would drive through the snow-bound countryside of Massachusetts to get my late husband—who had been placed on the heart transplant list in November—to the hospital forty minutes away should the gift of a heart become available. Worry jingled in my head like loose change in a pocket.

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    The Gift of the Heavy Rains

    The other day as my husband, Jerry, and I were driving down the gravel driveway that links our “Little House Nestled in the Big Woods” with the rest of the world, we came upon…

    December 5, 2018
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    When a Moment of Silence Isn’t Enough

    It seems, as of late, that our world as many of us knew it, is no longer. Unprecedented mass killings, terrorism, and nightly shootings broadcast on the early morning news, are more the norm…

    October 23, 2017
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    Burdened By Too Many Commitments

    Going on two years now, I have been knitting a Christmas stocking for my grandson, Henry. It truly is a labor of the deepest, giving-of-myself kind of love, for in doing this, I have…

    October 12, 2017
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    What Prayer Teaches Us About Trust

    Every year at this twitterpating time, (according to Bambi and friends), we get a host of bird couples making their newlywed nests in our gutters, atop beams, or as safe-as-it-seems-to-them, any nook or cranny.…

    April 6, 2017