Art Guides Children and Parents Through Grief - "Dancing with Midwives" Expresses One Woman's Grieving Process After the Loss of a Child

Author Ann Faison‘s understanding of grief began with her own grieving process after giving birth to her still-born child. She is trained as a visual artist, a musician, and a healer, so her healing process naturally leads to a focus … Continue reading

ROADWAY HILLSIDE MEMORIAL CROSSES

  
 As I drive down this desolate road, one more time, I see an all too familiar and re-occurring site. It is almost dark, it is cold and raining and I instantly know what it is. There it is, a silouette in the distance, merging closer, yet closer. There it stands now, very still. I see it clearly, so barren, so self explanatory, so lifeless. The "vision" says it all.
  
Again, I know all too well what I must do as I start to pray.

On the Death of a Brother - Seamus Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" is raw, real

Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for his poetry, and it is no wonder why; his works have their own beauty and rhythm to them that gives them a kind of musical quality. One of … Continue reading

Understanding Grief is Another Expression of Love

Ken sat on the couch across from me, smiled and exclaimed, “I stopped it!  The uncontrollable crying.  I stopped it!”  

Just the week prior I had been at a loss as the 59 year old self-avowed “Momma’s boy” cried with an overpowering despair.   He had been completely inconsolable over the death of his 82 year old mother. 

Maurice Hilliard Passes Away: Thank You Coach For Investing In Me

I just found out that one of my former coaches died. His name was Maurice Hilliard. He was currently serving as the athletic chaplain at Pepperdine University. He was an amazing man. I know he touched hundreds, even thousands of lives as a coach, friend, and mentor. I wanted to take a minute to say "thank you coach" for his investment into my life.

Battle Fatigue: The War for Peace -By: Todd Blumhorst


   We have been thrown blindly into a war in which we never wanted to fight. They entered our lives like a thief in the dark; they not only took our loved one, they also made a declaration of war upon our souls. Did they not expect us to react when they took our loved one from us? Did they think we would sit idly by and watch justice slip away? This was your Pearl Harbor, a blind attack from nowhere. You weren’t prepared for the horror, but you were forced to fight.