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The Hotel McCutcheon
It has taken a long time for me to write this story. For many months, ever since my sister, Erica, died, I have made half a dozen false starts. More than once, I got several paragraphs down only to lose … Continue reading
Posted in Kindness
Tagged bereavement, camaraderie, death, fellowship, food, friendship, fun, generosity, grace, Grief, hospice, hospitality, hotel, kindness, lodging, loss, mourning, passing, wake
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Trust
I just finished watching The Impossible, a new film in which a youngish couple played by Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts bring their three boys to Indonesia and settle into a coastal bungalow just in time for the 2004 tsunami―the … Continue reading
Posted in Acceptance, Trust
Tagged adversity, calamity, cataclysm, confidence, death, disaster, good, hardship, joy, life, loss, love, pain, peace, redemption, rescue, salvation, sorrow, sovereignty, triumph, trust, victory
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Early Sunset
I’m losing my sister. Erica has been fighting illness for months and had just started on a third round of chemo when we found out that her cancer had advanced rapidly, leaving her with no more than a week or … Continue reading
Posted in Grief
Tagged bereavement, Grief, grieve, heaven, hope, hospice, illness, life after death, loss, redemption, sad, sadness, salvation
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Absentee Landlord?
“God [set the earth’s inhabitants in place] so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” –Acts 17:27 One of the most formidable obstacles to robust … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Uncategorized
Tagged absentee landlord, believe, disaster, faith, God's promises, loss, pain, suffering, trouble, trust, turmoil
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