'The problem with life is that its so daily,' said Wood Allen once. Another problem - if it is that, is that life is very short.
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So, my wife asked me evening. ‘Do you ever think about dying? Hmmm. Good question in this day of pandemic pandemonium, uncertainty and fear.
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We are ever grateful for the sacrifices made to combat Evil in all the ways it is manifest in our broken world.
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All of one, all of a piece
Different, and somehow one in same
Another day, ev'ning to follow
Another day, for good or ill.
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There is a certain and inevitable outcome to our lives. We shall not live for ever. And that’s a fact.
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A movie roughly based on Psalm 23 - The Lord is my Shepherd.... with score written by Laurie Barber using Logic Pro X, Eric Whitacre choral voicings, and violin.
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This is a world in which good things and bad can and do happen. One is not always prepared. No - we are never really prepared when evil and disaster ascend upon us, as from the Abyss.
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My father died in March of 2007. I wrote this shortly before he passed through . . .
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My Great Uncle, Freeman Barber, was interred in the Avondale Cemetery, Guelph, ON - August 26th, 2016. I had the privilege of conducting the Committal Service.
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"Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be thy music; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
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Life's autumn falls, dark memories too,
We long to hold the life we knew;
The love, the face we treasured, gone
And death now silences the home.
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When our first granddaughter was stillborn, we very much appreciated those who had foreseen that this kind of thing happens, and had decided to do something in the light of the deep pain and disapp
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The Pieta, The Vatican, Rome, Italy
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet?
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So, there is this little line or squiggle between the birth and death dates on many tombstones. Life is what happens along the squiggle.
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I once heard well-known Christian speaker and writer Tony Compolo encourage a room frull of Christians to live life to the full.
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I put out the following - not sure that I believe or endorse it, but because I want to consider it awhile; these thoughts and their implications for understanding, truthfulness, clarity, pati
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One day I mourned; it could have been any day and in many places in our broken world.
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I wrote this a few yhears ago, when my Dad died.
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One always wonders what’s just around the bend.
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