November 2008

Check out your community calendar for any activities surrounding National Family Caregivers Month. NFC Month is organized each year by the National Family Caregivers Association and is designated as a time every year to thank, support, educate and empower family caregivers. For more information, and to sign up for a teleseminar for caregivers, [...]

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Little Brownies marching in the Veterans Day parade
football and steaks planned at brother’s house tomorrow
Playing crafts with my little nieces

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I sit in my garden for the first time in many months. I close my eyes, unclench my fists and adopt a meditative pose. I lean back and recite the Jesus Prayer (“Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on Me”) that I learned from a meditative prayer class.

The meditative state is hard to maintain [...]

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Psalm 101: For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting.
Time shifts around in Caregiverland.
Our former sense of time goes all topsy-turvey in this new world. Frequent calls in the middle of the night confuses our day/night schedules. Routine tasks now take two to three times longer to do than normal. The task of getting [...]

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Watched a lovely documentary on Navajo (Dine) women and their weaving tradition last night. The title: Weaving Worlds. I loved how the camera lingered on the aged faces, their jewely, braids and woven cloths.
Their concept of beauty and value is so different from our Western eyes. A beautiful woman in their world can be short, [...]

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Luke tells the story of how a woman approached Jesus, kneeled and poured out a precious ointment over his feet. Jesus responded graciously to her act of love, and ignored the reactions of the bystanders, who were shocked by the extravagance of the gesture.
I see so many aspects of God in this story – in [...]

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