sorrow

Dear Elisia Jane, Soon it will be a year since you left us. So soon, too soon, so sudden. We didn’t know–I didn’t know–that the hugs you gave on Easter would be the last I’d feel your touch. This Thursday would have been your fourteenth birthday. A reminder of the day you were born bringing […]

The End Of Spring

This year Easter the sun shone bright–a welcome harbinger of Spring after a long Winter. A Clear sky and the many hues of the budding season belied the chill in the air—common in these mountains. Nancy spent that morning in church—her husband, Dan, preaching—the Easter breakfast—the fellowship with the small congregation. That afternoon she and […]