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Your Smile Can Tell if You are Suffering from Stroke
Are you suffering from Stroke? In the past several years as a nurse, I have witnessed many people become devastated from losing a loved one to stroke. I myself lost a dear friend who was then only 37...
View ArticleGo for the Gold
When I create a Memory Bear for a family, I want caring thoughts and quality to go into the making o
View Articlesad song of Autumn
It’s like the changing of seasons; when the warmth that once comforted you, breaks into an unshakable chill. Like the beautifully sad song of Autumn. Soft and melancholy. Present in the air and...
View ArticleFighting to Honor a Father’s Last Wish: To Die at Home
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The sound of the barking dog brought me to consciousness. The morning was spent watching my youngest’s football game in the company of my oldest daughter, son and husband. The alarm that morning made...
View ArticleGrattan Institute says plan your death, tell relatives how you want to die
News Corp Australia Network Sue Dunlevy 28 September 2014 Death has become over medicalised, institutionalised and stripped of its dignity with just one in seven of us fulfilling our wish to die at...
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The Price Young Brain Cancer Survivors pay for a Second Chance - Blog for...
My daughter Hana is a brain cancer survivor, but her survival has come at a price. Every day I witness her suffering as she pays this price. Here is a piece I wrote about the cost of surviving...
View ArticleTime to Grieve, to Cry, to Remember
A loved one passes away and the world, for a moment seems to stop. Arrangements have to be made, pap
View ArticleWithout Them
The loss of a loved one is an unwelcome, but real part of life. The loss cannot be changed by trying
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We Are Music by Natalie Weaver
When I was about eight years old, I dreamed one night that I stood inside the workings of an immense instrument, so big it filled the sky. It was crafted of wood and gold, and although there was no...
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Images from a Train: Vacancy
Vacant were the eyes that stared back at me from rotting sills. A wave of isolation and loneliness pervaded my thinking and I pulled back a bit from the train window. I felt the desertion like oil...
View ArticleBearing the Cross
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. [Luke 14:27 ESV] I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of the process of dying. My assurance of eternity with God is firm....
View ArticlePlus Forty
Very nearly four decades ago, a cousin and I were roughhousing in the kitchen of our South Dakota farmhouse. In the early evening, Mom and my uncle and aunt returned from another of what had been...
View Articlestep by step
I walk past a woman walking with her mother. I give her what I hope she interprets as the “you’re wonderful, I know what you’re going through” smile. She acknowledges me briefly and then turns back to...
View ArticleWhy Memory Bears
Why Memory Bears? How will that help my grief? How is that going to replace my loved one? Bears are
View ArticleMemories from Long Ago
~ for Jon ~ Gentle rain upon our brows, Mix with tears that flow. Images of the past we see, So long
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Love is Support.
It’s hard to come up with words to express the splattering of emotions that arise when a loved one passes. What’s equally challenging is to pause and be present with those who are expressing feelings...
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Can God Speak Through Coke Cans?
I was with my mother most of the day today. She is on the verge of going to be with Jesus. (In The Salvation Army it is called being “promoted to glory.”) She couldn’t speak today, but would open her...
View ArticleIn my weakness. . .
I thought I could save myself moving out here. I wish I would of moved out a long long time ago. I think I could of saved myself back then. I think things would of been different. I can’t save myself...
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Be Encouraged Older Saints of God; God Is Not Finished with Us Yet.
This morning I had a wonderful quiet time with Jesus. After prayer and intercession, and after putting the final touches upon the Sunday school lesson that I will be teaching on Sunday, I asked God...
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