Tag: Grieving

  • A Father In Need Of Prayers

    A Father In Need Of Prayers

    Father Mike is the pastor at our church. He gives some pretty good homilies. He gave one a few weeks ago that’s had me thinking since. He was talking about sins of omission and sins of commission. He likes to bring in examples from recent news, and this Sunday one of the examples he used was the story…

  • A Prayer Request

    A Prayer Request

    Tonight my cousin Denise lost her daughter Jessica. It brings back memories of that night two and a half years ago. Debbie and I were sitting on our couch going through every picture of Richard we could find. We sat there crying, hugging and, if you can believe it, laughing as we looked at the images…

  • Crazy Thoughts?

    Crazy Thoughts?

    After your kid leaves this earth you do a lot of thinking – at least I do. I come up with some pretty crazy ideas too. A few months before Richard died I was involved in a truck crash. My Toyota pickup truck verses a Big Rig. It ran over me on I-64. It was…

  • The Last Jolly Rancher

    The Last Jolly Rancher

    Richard was a fan of Jolly Ranchers. In case you don’t know,  Jolly Ranchers are rectangular blocks of fruit flavored hard candy. Each Jolly Rancher comes individually wrapped in cellophane wrappers. He had lots of them in his apartment. There were a couple of containers of them on his desk. There was a cup full on an…

  • Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business

    Today I’m exhausted. I’ve begun the process of taking care of all my unfinished Richard business. It’s a pretty impressive to-do list. There are just so many little things that need to be done, so many loose ends that need tying. In the early days after Richard’s death I had a lot of energy to…