The image is of my daughter, Temma Day, a painting done by her father when she was about two-years-old. Temma had this shock of hair even when she was first born. She is struggling to lift up her head, her physical therapist put her on her stomach to help her, resting her hands on the […]
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Temma and I got our little tree trimmed with all our ornaments this afternoon. That is always a nostalgic task. Many of the ornaments come from friends, as far back as when Temma was a baby and coming off life-support at the hospital after her cardiac arrest. Tim and I came home to our apartment […]
We do some reflecting back and forth to each other.
July 13, 2014 Series on Compassion, Number One Romans 8;1 – 11 Compassion derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning “to suffer, undergo, or experience.” So “compassion” means “to endure [something] with another person,” to put ourselves in somebody else’s shoes, to feel her pain as though it were our own, and […]
Writing From the Margins 