One Saturday evening 5 years ago, we were sitting in the pew with our four children at Mass. During the consecration, the priest held up the host and repeated the words of Jesus: “Take this all of you and eat.” The word “all” resonated in the spacious church and we realized that our 7-year-old daughter [...]

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Last cup of coffee on the deck at Silver Lake. Time to pack up, clean out the refrigerator, and wash the sheets and towels before leaving. This is a beautiful place, full of the grandeur of God. The silvered surface of the lake when it is calm. The dunes rising up out of the lake. [...]

My brother Dave died six weeks ago. It feels so weird to type the words in black and white. The shock of the initial news, quickly followed by the surrealistic task of choosing a casket and cemetery plot, followed by the bizarre ritual of the funeral itself, left me as limp and sour as a [...]