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The Mother of God
Today (May 3) is Good Friday on the Orthodox calendar. What better day to meditate on the Cross than this? This year my heart is drawn to the Theotokos, the Mother of God. In particular, a reality that I should have seen years before, but I’d never connected the dots, nor heard anyone else do…
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“Time heals all wounds!” Oh, please…
Dear Griever, Perhaps someone (or many someones) has said to you “time heals all wounds.” Perhaps you’ve said it to someone else (in which case, forgive me for what I’m about to say). Ahem. BS. Time does not heal all wounds. Rather, time gives you the opportunity to work out the healing (or not). The…
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The Alchemy of Grief
The Elixir Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything To do it as for Thee. Not rudely, as a beast, To run into an action; But still to make Thee prepossest, And give it his perfection. A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye; Or if he pleaseth,…
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Ready or Not…
After one of the premarital counseling sessions Melinda and I had with Fr. Stephen Freeman, he commented as we were leaving that, barring the unusual circumstances where a husband and wife die together, one spouse will survive the other. He certainly didn’t need to repeat it later when Tracy and I met with him for…
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Widowed Parent Relief Project
A few months ago brother widower Mathew Bradley, host of the Solo Dad Podcast and the Solo Dad Facebook page, posted a message about an outreach organization in the Knoxville area called the Widowed Parent Relief Project. No sooner did I find their web page than I was messaging the founder for more information and…
The Joyful Widower 