This was originally posted April 22, 2016 Love that is hoarded molds at last, Until we know someday That the only things we ever have Are those we give away. It’s been nearly three months since my mother in law, Marian Rudberg, left this earth for eternity. I should say Heaven. Everyone leaves the earth [...]
Have your surroundings been rearranged on you, taking you away from where you’ve been? Was it a move? A new job? A new circumstance you didn’t ask for? I was asked those same questions and it didn’t take me long to remember a time like that. I was recently widowed and a music teacher in [...]
A longing for family connection.... She said she had a longing for family. For the closeness of siblings. She had a brother. But she also had a sister—in heaven. Could that sister be the longing? In one of our conversations, Erika my daughter, and I were talking about family as we often do. She said [...]
Saturday, February 25, 2012 Blair Graybill, 1944 - 2010 A day to remember This Tuesday afternoon, my stepson Jonathan, daughter and grandsons, will drive north to Olympia to receive an award given to six families every year for their family member's gift of life to another. Blair Graybill gave life to two different [...]
I’m going to set the stage for today's blog. As I’ve posted in my blogs this month, January and February are memorable months for me. They are filled with heart-wrenching joy. They are filled with sorrow and loss. And most of all, they are filled with God’s loving care throughout those horrendous and terrible days. [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, February 12, 2016 - Shirley's Blog It helps me forget those lonely days.... Three wonderful years we've been able to celebrate the holiday of love. It helps me to forget those lonely days when I didn't have a special valentine. It wasn't the same... I think back ten years ago. It was [...]
We were sitting on the sofa, in front of a cozy fire this morning. As usual, I had our prayer journal in front of us. Out of habit, I write down the date, what the weather’s like, and what we will pray for that particular day. “You know what day it is today?” I turned [...]
At Crater Lake, a few months before his death. Five years ago today [at this writing, it is seven years ago], the doctor came into the hospital room with the terrible news. They told me my husband would not survive the brain bleed he'd endured. That day was one of the most difficult [...]
Storms will come..... It was a January day, exactly eleven years ago today. My night was short because the evening before I had spent several hours waiting for ER physicians to determine what was wrong with my first husband, Bill. They told us it was a TIA, or mini stroke, sending us home, [...]
The Storm I’ve been through some terrifying storms in my lifetime. I imagine you have too. The first storm took place when my husband of forty years, Bill Rudberg, died from complications of Leukemia. I was shocked at how difficult the storm was. Harder than losing my father, my eighteen-year-old-best-friend, my stillborn baby, Carrie. I [...]
