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What Ashes Say
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Beyond Blue
As an adolescent I loved wearing ashes on my forehead to cover up my oily pimples. In high school, Ash Wednesday got a toast to the beginning of those two-hour Stations of the Cross on Fridays, which shortened each class period by 25 minutes. And in my working days (at an office), my black smudge…
Not Just a Fever
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Beyond Blue
Two boys went to bed with fevers last night. One is dead. The other is my David. I have to wonder if the guardian angels are vacationing in Florida this month, because too many little guys have fallen asleep for good in this zip code. In Katherine’s preschool class, a little boy lost his three-month-old…
Mother of Sorrows
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Beyond Blue
One Bible verse disturbs me more than any other. It’s not the one telling me to sell my laptop computer and king-size bed because “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:25). It’s the words…
Grant Me the Serenity
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Beyond Blue
The poem “Anyway” is basically an elaboration of the Serenity Prayer, which I say all the time. In “Parenthood and the Serenity Prayer” I explain how I used it to potty train, or at least attempt to potty train, David when he was three.
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