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I thought it was over.
My father, dead these twenty years, not buried but filed away in a niche like a folder, forgotten it turns out, not over and done with. I thought it was over, that time of shock / of loss / of surprise...
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Harvest from Mercy Convent retreat, November 15th 2015
The theme of the retreat was “Autumn: A Season of New Beginnings”. The Bible reading was Mark 4:1-20 and 30-32. These are the Parables of the Sower and the Mustard Seed. Here’s my Condensed Gospel...
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Poem – In the winter, we can see
In the winter, we can see the bones of things. We can see the true shapes of the trees. We can see where the birds have made their homes. We can finally see the river that nourishes both, that...
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Carrying burdens
There is a Buddhist story about a woman whose child had died. She carried him around the village in her arms, asking everyone she saw if they had medicine to help heal her child. Everyone who saw her...
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Grief shuffle
Inertia is absolutely normal and to be expected when grieving. This is a hard journey, this journey of grief. How to walk forward, when half of you is gone? And yet we must walk forward, all of us,...
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Poem – Lost mothers, daughters
We all are daughters searching for our mothers. We all are mothers searching for our daughters. We all are lost, and have lost. Sometimes our arms have to wrap around the shoulders of someone else,...
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Evening prayer
Grant peace to those who watch, or wait, or grieve tonight, Lord. Be with them in the hours of darkness. Lead them through the valley of the shadow of death into the calm and safety of your promised...
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Corner
She sat there, alone, in the corner, until she cried it all out. Nobody had told her how to grieve. All she knew were two things – the rocking chair was where you sat to be soothed by your parents, and...
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Our loved ones remain absent from us for as long as we mourn. Their spirit cannot intersect with ours while we grieve. They are afraid to plunge us further into the pit of despair, so they do not...
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Grief is a journey that nobody can really prepare you for. You just have to walk through it, step by step. You will be surprised by how it affects you. Keep to your regular routine as much as possible...
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