Love shares wisdom: Guest post by Laska the Love kitty

October 5, 2011

I m Laska th luv kitee… tuday I mayk gest post I m seekingz awl tymz fore lite uv wizdumz fore u an I hav for u teechingz beecuz thingz menee I lern an u needz knowingz frum mee  thingz I no I m tu shayringz with u menee thingz lyk sumtimz… iz gud tyms […]

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Love attacks the button with intent and purpose

October 4, 2011

source I sit here feeling very unworthy of writing… fending off fear that I can’t put any useful words down at all. I just read an e-mail from a friend about fear. The timing of the e-mail, and the shared thoughts on totally different battlefronts, but absolutely the same theme, reminds me how much humanity […]

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Love folds and chooses and remembers and smiles

October 3, 2011

source It’s a little thing… and I won’t stop doing it… because it’s like gobbling up little dots of happy… Only a handful of people even know I do it. And now you’ll know too. As a kid I didn’t want to do it. I hated it. I grumbled. She said it was the right […]

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Love is important to God

September 30, 2011

source “One Solitary Life” was read at the service… and these words too, broke me down and built me up. This is part three of Sara’s funeral service, part one is here, two is here. As the words are read, I realize that in the eyes of the world my life has been an abject […]

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Love means death is not goodbye…

September 29, 2011

source Yesterday was Sara’s funeral. She planned this service to the last detail, right up to the final song, “O Happy Day”. You could tell it was shaped by someone who understood she wasn’t dying, but about to live in a brilliantly different way. From the time I found out, until I learned she had […]

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Love doesn’t blaze hot only to die out

September 28, 2011

I was never a Boy Scout. I was a Cub Scout mascot once – but never a Boy Scout. source We moved from Brooklyn to St. Louis after my fourth grade year. I kid invited me along to a jamboree. City mouse – country mouse – sleeping in a tent and participating in Boy Scout-ish […]

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Love weaves tapestry

September 27, 2011

source Sadness is beginning to slowly turn… Only because of faith… Sara really did go home… she really is alive. And I don’t want to forget the hope that she represented, the way she faced the difficult and tragic, and harsh, and sad that the world threw at her – and how she confronted death. […]

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