May 30, 2023 “Lord, please shut my mouth so that I listen more than I speak.”– Fr. Nick Pavia In public speaking, there’s a term called “defensive listening,” which is described as “poor listening behavior, where a listener acts defensively to what the...
May 29, 2023 “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final...
May 28, 2023 “When will you rescue me?” This French holy card from the mid-1800s pictures a young woman, who is alone and adrift on a raging sea, symbolic of the suffering and tragedy all of us encounter in our lives, especially when we lose someone we...
May 27, 2023 “Some sayings common to the various 12-step programs may be helpful in passing through the grief stages of recovery. Sayings such as “This too shall pass,” “Trust the process” and “One day at a time” have their roots in the hope that has been passed...
May 26, 2023 “Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress over what was, fight for what could be.”– Sean Higgins Change is a fact of life, especially after the loss of a loved one. At those...
May 25, 2023 “It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.”– Anne Morrow Lindbergh When someone asked Darlene how she was doing several months after her husband died from a long illness, she paused for a moment and then responded, “I just come home...
