tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593974398088596280.post4039194479686470330..comments2023-05-17T11:14:29.058-04:00Comments on small: it is wellRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593974398088596280.post-45555059785037886522013-06-28T01:49:57.771-04:002013-06-28T01:49:57.771-04:00Mom's birthday, dear sister, and yet this remi...Mom's birthday, dear sister, and yet this reminds me of Dad, who loved sharing the stories behind the hymns. Now I wonder who got the book he had that told so many of those stories?Ginnie Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014434422568561157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593974398088596280.post-12235519071488034102013-06-27T07:34:28.480-04:002013-06-27T07:34:28.480-04:00how is it that i could not read and receive the hy...how is it that i could not read and receive the hymn until i understood the story and then when i did, oh, the hymn itself rolled over me. in the face of such profound and unalterable sorrow, such<i> acceptance</i> (if acceptance is the word). it is difficult to bear the significance and shining of such faith. and beautiful. beautiful and difficult. or perhaps it is only the sorrow that is difficult to bear. in the face of losing one's children, fear enters in and confuses everything for a mother. <br /><br />a mother and a daughter. your mother)))) james's))) mine. you and i as mothers. it is all so much.<br /><br />xo<br />erinerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636371927224076866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593974398088596280.post-18064028580931366772013-06-26T10:21:36.308-04:002013-06-26T10:21:36.308-04:00O it is sweet that our mothers share a birthday. I...O it is sweet that our mothers share a birthday. I like adding to our connections (like my grandson's name :).Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593974398088596280.post-91381871943251707412013-06-26T10:04:07.057-04:002013-06-26T10:04:07.057-04:00today is my mother's birthday, too ...
it is ...today is my mother's birthday, too ...<br /><br />it is a meaningless coincidence ... except that such coincidences remind us what an unguessable weave of lines and little hooks bind us all together, remind us that existence is shared, not solitary, after all :-)<br /><br />.James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.com