Posted March 21, 2021 in Sacred Stories

Spilled Soda

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They were navigating the grief of the passing of their adult son. Her husband said, “If I just knew he is happy where he is, it would be easier.”

She knocked over a can of soda, spilling it down and under a nearby chair.

Moving the chair to clean […]

Posted March 21, 2021 in Sacred Stories

Voice Mail

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Her father called from California, but she missed his call.

He was wishing her a Happy Valentine’s Day.

Later that day, he had a stroke.

When he passed away, she was so grateful she had missed his call that day.

She still has his loving voice mail […]

Posted March 21, 2021 in Sacred Stories

I Love You

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He had passed just two weeks earlier.

He flashed into her mind so many times.

She opened the drawer to see the small green ceramic bowl he had gifted her.

There in the center of the bowl was his message: I love you! She could actually hear him […]

Posted March 21, 2021 in Sacred Stories

Combination

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He had passed quite unexpectedly in his sleep.

She had kept the combination to his gun safe in his contact on her phone, but it was not there as she was cleaning out his apartment.

As she went to bed that night, she told him she needed the combination. […]

Posted March 9, 2021 in Sacred Stories

Bear and Heart – BIG LOVE!

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She and her husband found this bear at a rock shop in Canada and they both fell in love with it.

His passing was such a shock…. and loss.

They had divorced, remaining devoted.

Making arrangements with the funeral home, she stopped at a shop. The first thing […]

Posted March 7, 2021 in Sacred Stories

The Hills Are Alive

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Looking down at the jigsaw puzzle she had been working on over the past couple of days, she saw a face near the base of the mountain, and heard in her head, “The hills are alive.”

Immediately she thought of a dear friend with a gorgeous singing voice. That song […]

Posted March 7, 2021 in Sacred Stories

Eschatological Laundry List

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Her writing that day during the poetry writing group time was a blog post. In that post, she quoted from An Eschatological Laundry List by Sheldon Kopp.

The subtitle is A Partial Register of the 927 (or was it 928?) Eternal Truths.

When she finished reading her blog post, another of […]

Posted February 21, 2021 in Sacred Stories

Sioux – The Great Contact

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She saw a friend’s Facebook post about his dog, Bassie, passing.

She has several favorite quotations about dog’s passing, and she most often shares a very special one from The Dharma of Dogs, but she sent this one:

In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person who is grieving is considered […]

Posted February 1, 2021 in Sacred Stories

Handrail

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Out on the golf cart, they stopped to see friends. It was clear the friends were just heading out for a bike ride, so the visit was brief.

“How is Davey?” the inquiry about a mutual friend who had taken a fall off his steps a few days earlier.

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Posted January 13, 2021 in Sacred Stories

The Gita for Children

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Near the end of the Zoom class, a man who had lived in India shared a great epic in which Arjuna, approaching the battlefield, saw that he would have to fight against some of his family, friends, and teachers. Questioning his role as a warrior, Arjuna put down his weapons.

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