by Kelly Greer | Mar 29, 2016 | Consilium Community
Out of the blue last Tuesday, I was struck down by a wave a grief, sobbing and wrestling with loss after loss. In a matter of days we had attended two visitations at the same funeral home. One was for an elderly man who lived a long life. And one was for a...
by Chris Malkemes | Mar 22, 2016 | Consilium Community
She bows her head down low. Not in shame or embarrassment, but sorrow. You will not see her tears; she refuses to share her grief. Easter brings us face-to-face with death. Do you believe? We walk in the fear of the unknown when we discover more of our friends are...
by Ellen Chauvin | Mar 15, 2016 | Consilium Community
I studied her small, wrinkled hands. Their roughness testified to the fact that these eighty-five year old hands had worked hard through the years. I rubbed them gently, hoping she could feel the love flowing from my hands to hers. Glancing out the sliding glass...
by Dr. Michelle Bengtson | Mar 8, 2016 | Consilium Community
I had plans to attend a quarterly ladies’ event at church that evening. “It would be good for me to get out and be around people,” I reasoned. As I stared in my closet vacantly trying to decide what to wear, grief overtook me and the tears began to flow. There was no...
by Mary Bonner | Mar 1, 2016 | Consilium Community
Twenty-three years – it seems like it was yesterday. Like I am dreaming. Sometimes the pain of losing her is as fresh as the day she died in my arms. The doctors were telling me I needed to go back to the hospital where I was a patient. They said I needed my rest. I...
by Lynn D. Morrissey | Feb 23, 2016 | Consilium Community
My husband Michael doesn’t have a retiring bone in his body. Nonetheless, after thirty-seven years of faithful service to the same agency, last year he tendered his resignation and retired on December 31st. And boy, am I excited! No more solopreneur stuff for me. No,...