Faith

*Please read the update about the next topic/scheduling for our next Time Warp Tuesday towards the end of this post. Thank you!* Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twelfth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, here is the […]

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Earlier tonight I participated in a Candle Lighting sponsored by our local South Suburban Chapter of The Compassionate Friends. As many of you know, it is part of a much larger Worldwide Candle Lighting that takes place every year on the second Sunday in December at 7:00 p.m. around the globe. Though every year since […]

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7 years ago today we experienced our first miscarriage. 7 years ago today we lost our pregnancy innocence. 7 years ago today our first dream of having another child close in age to our son died. 7 years ago today we tried to understand why. 7 years ago today we tried to accept what had […]

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Where is God?

by Kathy on November 27, 2011 · 5 comments

in Bereavement, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Loss, Love, Peace

This morning Bob, the kids and I attended a mass and reception in honor of the 25th anniversary of the ordination of a priest that Bob knew from high school. He was one of Bob’s favorite teachers and Bob has always loved hearing his sermons. During the man of honor’s homily today he told a […]

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Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly’s ABC News Special Interview with Diane Sawyer aired on Monday night. I haven’t seen the whole thing, but have caught clips of their moving interchange about Gabby’s “journey towards recovery” in various headline news stories. As so often is the case with national news stories, such as this […]

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Sibling Snippets: Short & Sweet

by Kathy on November 14, 2011 · 4 comments

in Abby, Faith, Love, NaBloPoMo, Sean, Siblings

One Sunday morning, not long ago, soon after we sat down in a pew at church, Abby turned to her big brother and said enthusiastically in her sweet little voice, “Hi Sean!”  Sean replied to his little sister, in his own heartfelt way, “that never gets old.”

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