Soul Lace

At what point, would you admit that you are not feeling well, that something is not right, that you may be ill or sick?  I know for me, like others I have seen, it seems that I am sometimes more inclined to disregard something that may be a sign of something wrong. …

Many years ago, when my brother was sick and dying, I was hesitant to pray that he be healed because I felt I knew inside that he was going to die.  I thought that to pray that he be healed was equivalent to praying that he not die. …

At one time or another we have all had the feeling of being left out.  Even if not intended, the feeling of not being around when something of importance takes place can leave us feeling excluded.  Even when exclusion is not intentional, sometimes our desire to having been part of something or being somewhere, which for one reason or another we were not present, can lead us to feel a bit jealous or even angry. …

I don’t know much about birds, but I love listening to them and watching them.  There is a bird who has made a nest on the corner of the front of our house, and she steps out onto the powerline each morning and begins chirping.  …

I wander off.  I always have, even as a child.  I don’t know why, but I do.  I have heard several stories told of just disappearing when I was little.  Mom has told more than once the story of how when I was just a toddler, I got up one morning, got a chair and unlatched the front door and walked outside, down the street (our house was on Poplar) and crossed Perkins Road. …