Recently a friend was commenting that someone said something totally inappropriate to an individual who had recently suffered a loss. In this case it was a death and the remark was one of those ones that people say ALL the time but don't really understand the impact of the words on the grieving individual. I have been guilty of it and I would hazard a guess that everyone reading this post has at one time or another made the same blunder. I went to school to be a social worker. Not that I … [Read more...]
That Farthest Shore (via poemsandponderings)
Seems like a great post for a Sunday morning and since I was coming up empty this morning---thanks to Jake---I have a post worth posting!!! Sunday morning, I think something spiritual is in order. I just finished this on Friday last, (9/2/11) and in the nick time for this morning's sermon. That Farthest Shore My body is but a vessel, for the being that I am. So, I won't bear no worldly troubles, into the Promise Land. I will take no earthly tortures, no wounds, nor human pains, … [Read more...]