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What Mama Taught me About Knowing and Doing God’s Will

Oh, the lessons my mama is still teaching me! I went over the other day to help Mom with a

Monday was my Dad’s birthday. His first one with Jesus. I miss him. And I miss Mom. And regrets and

It does my heart good to read this precious memory from four years ago. And it reminds me, as I’m

I wrote this a couple years ago, but am finding it’s helpful to meditate on again. Mama and Daddy are

Guilt. It seems to be an ever present shadow in this journey of caregiving and grieving. Some people seem to

Oh Mama… are you watching from heaven? Your sweetheart, your husband of 61 years, isn’t doing very well. He got

It has been a little over a month since my Mama passed on to the presence of Jesus. I continue

We were watching an old Dick Van Dyke Show the other night, when I just started crying. Grieving is like

I thought we had finished opening presents. We were just hanging out and cooing over grandchildren and nibbling cookies, when

I was feeding my mom a meal the other day and I asked her, “Mama, are you happy?” She turned