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It lives
The power of the body to heal is amazing. The spirit, too, I guess. But next month my hand will be fine, and next month my heart will still ache when I think of her. Continue reading
Startled by a priceless promise
Seventeen years ago today, about this time of the early morning, my daughter Anna was killed. Our daughter. Megan’s sister. Dorothy’s granddaughter. PK and Gloria’s granddaughter. Paul and Kathy’s niece. Christopher and Clara, Andrew, Amanda and Melissa’s cousin. The twins … Continue reading
Days like this
I feel like I should write something about Gloria. Today is the first anniversary of her death. It was a good death – no, not a good death, a good dying. Her family was gathered around her. She was alert … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bonde, Death, Gloria Bonde, Grief, Hope, Life, Love, Remembering, Remembrance
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The day will come
The number of people I remember on All Saints’ Day continues to grow. It is the burden of life. My father, 96, read me the names of those being remembered in his church. Again and again the names he read … Continue reading
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Tagged All Saints Day, Anna Bonde, Gloria Bonde, Grief, Hope, New Creation, Remembering, Remembrance
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“I kept that promise.”
It’s hard to describe what happened to me at the altar during the prayers of the church, yesterday. Typical Lutheran congregations don’t have a shared vocabulary for discussing personal spiritual experiences. Other communities of which I have been a part find it easier to say that God spoke to them. Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bonde, Christianity, Death, Grief, Hope, Religion and Spirituality, Religious experiences, Resurrection
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Tomorrow
Tomorrow would have been my daughter’s 36th birthday. It snuck up in me, busy as I’ve been. But a look at the calendar today, and that number 13 jumped out. Is it really May already? Are we here again? What … Continue reading
Posted in Grief, Hope, Spirituality
Tagged 1 Corinthians 15, Anna Bonde, Beauty, Compassion, Eternal, Goodness, Grief, Habakkuk 3:17-18, Hope, Life, Love, New Creation, Religion and Spirituality, Remembering, Remembrance, Resurrection, Truth
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Thinking in stories
We are creatures who think in stories. Confusion and anxiety reign when we can’t figure out the story line. It locates us. It gives meaning to our past, shapes our understanding of the present and gives direction for the future. Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bonde, Christian Faith, Christianity, Compassion, Courage, Hope, Joy, Story, The Biblical story, Witness
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Let us pray for wisdom
It’s not possible to remember everything. With time memories slip away. Fragments remain. And the love remains. At least, that’s what should remain. I am heartened by those who turn their sorrow into kindness. I am saddened by those who turn it into bitterness. But I understand, most of us have stood at one time or another at that fork in the road where those two paths diverge Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bonde, Compassion, Drinking and Driving, Forgetting, Grief, Healing, Hope, Kindness, Memory, Remembering, Sorrow, Suffering
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All lives
16 years ago tomorrow my 19 year old daughter and two of her friends were killed by a driver who had been drinking. Though Anna and her friends had been driving responsibly, traveling the speed limit, wearing their seat belts, … Continue reading
I just wish that I could hear
Tomorrow is Anna’s 35th birthday. Hard to imagine. She is locked forever now at 19. Her smile. Her laugh. Her brilliant eyes. The daisies in her hair, plucked from the wildflowers on her way to school. Her warmth. Her depth of spirit. Her passion for dance and theater and the life of the Spirit. Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bonde, Death of a young person, Drinking and Driving, Life, Memory, Religion and Spirituality, Remembrance, Sorrow
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