Love trudges steady, intent, toward the light

September 26, 2011

Sara now has a perfect resurrected body. And at first I didn’t know what I was, then I was inconsolably sad, and now I’m learning, I’m learning… something… source It’s just before dawn as I write… on the horizon, a solid group of clouds stretch north to south, like a mountain range in the distance… […]

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Love commends tears in season.

September 23, 2011

source And now rain falls… soft, serene, soothing… everything overlaid with glisten and shimmer. And the sadness I feel for Sara… for Sara…dying… it ebbs, flows, like waves on shore… but still covers like steady rain. I’m thinking that to be disquieted right now… heartsick for Sara walking steadfast to heaven… but through the dark […]

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Love keeps watch

September 22, 2011

source My soul is sorrowful even to death. I remember the waiting… the counting of breaths… and watching them decrease… knowing that they would eventually stop. I remember not wanting her to stop breathing… and I remember wanting her to stop. I remember wanting to hold on to her – alive – as long as […]

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Love elicits love

September 21, 2011

As I write this Laska the love Kitty… who originally came to me looking for food… because I know that look – and that me-now meow… has instead chosen to sit by my side as I write… and he closes his eyes but he’s not sleepy… and he keeps opening them – as if to […]

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Love is so forgiving of frailty…mine

September 20, 2011

source Sara wrote in October 2009… But as the years progressed and I lost more and more of what I thought defined me, as I found myself in the hospital, unemployed and on disability, I realized that being a servant meant all or nothing. A line was drawn in the sand and I had to […]

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Love says thank you’s #553-562 through tears

September 19, 2011

source Sara is what I think about most, and best, right now. Jessica, her friend wrote… And yesterday, when hospice came, she was consumed with making sure people in her life knew they were loved and that she was ready to be at home in heaven. She refused the rest her body needed. just loved […]

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Love has 5 minutes for Sara

September 16, 2011

I haven’t ever posted to Gypsy mama’s 5 minutes. I know this is a special place for women. But this is Sara, and I have to. I just…have to. source For anyone who doesn’t know Lisa Jo’s 5 minutes – here the thing… Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no […]

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