I live in the neighborhood I grew up in as a child. Many of my neighbors moved here when my parents lived in this house on Homewood Road. The Wards, the Kushners, the Hanlons, and the Kiorpes, knew my parents well. They knew me too. Several of these neighbors have gotten to see my children grow up also. It has been 20 years since we moved into the neighborhood. Recently on my walks around the…
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Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. Thus the little minutes, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity. Julia Fletcher The humble minutes have evaporated into the big 3-4 for Gary and my wedding anniversary this week! Our friend John told us that at the altar, there are two perspectives. The groom is hoping his bride stays just the way she is, and the bride is anticipating all…
Leave a CommentI could never have imagined the darkness that lay ahead on what was just an ordinary day several years ago. Following our daily habit of rising early, my husband began to rouse our crew for our morning time together. Life went from rising expectations to an abrupt fall into darkness in a few short minutes. Gary called out, “Mary, she’s gone!” One of our children had left the house in the dark hours. I didn’t…
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Today I am returning to my work with the Institute for Cultural Communicators after taking a sabbatical during February. All of our leadership team participated! I am thinking of you and hoping you are seeking and finding rest and renewal for your life too! This version of Mary’s Meanderings is focused on books I read during my sabbatical. On sabbatical, I also took a silent retreat, spent a long weekend with my husband, dreaming about…
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4 CommentsFriends are Friends Forever part 2 of 3 A year into our time on Oahu, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I was also 16 weeks pregnant with our seventh child. I was grateful then that I had a year to make friends and weave our family into the Navy community before I had to make a “withdrawal” from those friend-accounts. Looking back I can see now that, I hadn’t yet learned what Henri Nouwen…
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