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  • Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

    I’m thinking about my own prayer life a lot right now. I’m wondering about how I’m caring for the tender part of my soul that needs to grieve and sing and wonder — and it’s hard. It’s hard to find… Continue reading

    Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

  • Grief in the Midst of Joy

    In just four days, it’ll be thirty-two years since she died. It will be thirty-two years since my mother died. I have to pull out a calculator every year to subtract from the current year. Surely, it hasn’t been that… Continue reading

    Grief in the Midst of Joy

  • Letters to Heaven

    Every year, as January comes to a close and the calendar turns to February, I start to wonder about what I’ll say to her this year. I wonder about what I would want her to know about this year and who I… Continue reading