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Can You Dream Again?
After Richard’s death Paula Fangman from our church gave us a copy of Healing After Loss – Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman. Paula found this book helpful after her husband passed away. It contains some inspiring quotes and a short reading for each day of the year. The entry for…
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Happiness by the Books
As grieving parents we tend to notice – even concentrate – on one thing ; our grief. That’s something we can’t avoid for a long time after our child has passed away. It just keeps jumping up and smacking us in the face. But at some point we all need to find a way out…
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The Smile Challenge
Richard was a Dr. Seuss fan. He had all his children’s books. And he demanded they be protected from visiting small children. So I thought this image and the up lifting message it presents would be a good choice for grieving parents. It’s a tough goal. Sometime we can make it, sometime we can’t get…
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Getting Away From It All
Debbie had to go to a conference for her job this past week. It was at Lake Barkley State Resort Park. We decided to turn it into a get away from it all mini-vacation. So I took several days off from work and tagged along. It was a pretty low key conference, with plenty of…
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Farewell Letter
The day before Richard’s funeral we had a visitation at the funeral home. I wrote a letter to our guests. We framed it and displayed it next to the guest book along with a picture of Richard. Many people asked me for a copy of that letter. For the life of me, I can’t imagine…