Oh, there you are. I should have known. You told me you’d never fully leave me and that you’d remain with me always. I should have trusted you. I should have known. Grief made me doubt. It made me hesitate.  But, there you are. Not because I see you or because you’re physically here but rather because of the promises you made to always be…

She got the call every daughter dreads. The one that ends in a rush to get to an ailing parent. The one that signifies borrowed time and immediate prayers. She drops everything to get home to her hospitalized mother.  As she tries to leave, her flight is canceled. She books another, it gets canceled too. She does this again and again until she realizes she…

He hasn’t found love yet in his life. He’s known brief infatuation and fleeting sparks of adoration but he hasn’t found that life-changing, ‘bend down on one knee’ type of love. And as he sits here talking about the person he hopes to one day find, he says, “I doubt I can find anyone that would want me now….I carry a heavy load of grief.”…

She’s holding a fresh loss, while mine is much more distant, because of this she leans on me for advice from time-to-time. It’s such a delicate honor and responsibility. I know her heart is fragile because years after losing my mother, my heart is still fragile too. Silently I pray for the wisdom and comfort she seeks while she tearfully tells her current ache and…