Sometimes joy hides right in the open, waits for me to notice. thrums with sweet surprises to melt life bitter while I look squinty eyed right at her or past her or through her. But with my God-tinted lenses, I see her in the midst of the storm. And a grandgirl hidden in Yahweh. I […]
To Learn
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. ~Henry Miller
More Than Enough
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.” “You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter. “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.” More Than Enough More always more to do to […]
Stripping and Soaking
I’ve turned the television to a music station–New Age. Don’t judge me. Right now I’m listening to a very soothing piano piece by Bernward Koch called “Evoking Wonder” from a CD titled Walking Through Clouds. There’s not a cloud in the sky. I watch a purple finch crack an oily shell, strip and probe and […]
Scripture Sunday: Unending Love, Amazing Grace
Soaking in His amazing grace and unending love with Deidra and Katie. And Michael.
Still Saturday: Alone with the Alone
Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness. Silent solitude forges true speech. I’m not speaking of physical isolation; solitude here means being alone with the Alone, experiencing the transcendent Other and growing in awareness of one’s […]
To the One Who Heals (Repost for National Nurses Week)
My shoe covers rustle along the linoleum floor until I come to the holding area. I find her, eyes closed on the gurney, brown wisps around green paper cap. A tiny lady almost swallowed by crisp white and warm woven. I pick up the chart at the foot of the bed and page through […]
In Which I Leave the Bedside
I’m twenty years old, working as a G.N. (graduate nurse), still waiting to find out if I passed my boards. It’s 3 p.m., and I come on duty to discover I’m in charge of all the intensive care patients. I have two regularly-scheduled nurse’s aides and one practical nurse who’s never worked on this […]
For National Nurses Week: Through the Time Tunnel (repost)
Monday, September 13, 2010 I enter a time tunnel and stand in front of Andersen Center, what used to be Andersen Hall. I’m surprised that it still stands. I’m overwhelmed. I look up and see my room. On the corner. With the bay windows. I must go inside. But my husband says we can’t. There […]
For National Nurses Week: Nursing School Memories (repost)
I graduated from Saginaw General Hospital’s diploma nursing program in 1969, a member of the last class. Most programs lasted three years, but this one packed all the work in two. We went year around. The hospital staffed around the students, and some of us also worked as aides on the weekends for a little […]
