The God of All Comfort

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as […]

Praise

It’s still hard for me to believe that Praise is gone. My heart breaks to think of it. I feel like it was just days not weeks ago that we emailed back and forth to arrange a surprise for one of our friends… Praise, I will always remember the incredible joy that radiated from you […]

Arlene

A close friend of the family, Arlene, who after so many years of Christmas, birthday, wedding, and family gatherings together felt very much like my own cousin, died on Thursday She was driving late night when she was hit by a semi and pushed into the concrete divider. She died at the hospital. It’s shocking […]

I Feel… (a free-flowing prose)

Like I’m fighting a shadow, a shadow of a life that was never meant to be, an expectation of an ideal never meant to be realized. I’m tired of me, Lord. I don’t want this kind of existence in these spaces, in these places that are still so undefined, redefined by the time and the […]

Through the Pain

Last December, I was at physical therapy for another appointment for my shoulder and knee. Oh the joys of arm bike, band work, weights, and ice and “stim” treatment! I hadn’t been in for a while because of a few weeks of the flu and then stomach flu (yuck), so there was plenty of work […]