This week, I have been thinking a lot about silence. It has been a week split between long days at home alone with my dog, Bella, and the computer and a weekend of raucus fun with girlfriends at a knitting convention that attracted thousands of people. In the first part of the week there was [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Lenten Rosary – Silence and Sound
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal rosary, prayer beads, silence on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Lenten Rosary: Light
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It is a rainy and cold Tuesday morning here and I find I am filled with a longing for spring. I want more than anything else to sit in the sun and feel it warm my bones. Still, it seems an appropriate landscape for Lent as I look out my window – gray skies, gray [...]
A Tallit for Ruth Marcus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged prayer beads, prayer shawl, tallit on February 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Surfing the Washington Post’s excellent blogsite On Faith, I came across this wonderful personal essay called “A Tallit of One’s Own.” In it, Ruth Marcus, an editorial writer for the Post, writes movingly about receiving a tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, of her own, made especially for her by her mother. As I describe in [...]
Update
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is Monday, Feb. 11 and my mom is still in the hospital and my stepfather and I are still here 10-12 hours a day. That’s the bad news. The good news is my mom is just fine – her oxygen levels are improving, her appetite continues to improve, she sits up more each day [...]
My Mom’s Fat Tuesday Good Luck
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is about the best news there could possibly be – surgery revealed that the initial diagnosis of a tumor and possible bone cancer was utterly, totally WRONG! My mom has nothing more than a broken bone. It isn’t even her hip, it is her right leg, at the femur. I do not know how [...]
A Jewish Prayer for Healing
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Jewish Healing Movement, prayers for healing on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About eight years ago I had the pleasure of writing about the Jewish Healing Movement in my first book, Faith Beyond Faith Healing: Finding Hope After Shattered Dreams. The JHM draws on the rich tradition of Jewish prayer and ritual to create eclectic and creative healing services and prayers.
When I was reporting the book, Rabbi [...]
A Rosary for my Mom
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican prayer beads, cancer, Catholic rosary, prayers for healing on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Friday (Feb 1), I received some bad news. My mother, who is 63, had broken a hip and fallen – in that order – while out with my stepfather and his parents. An x-ray at the emergency room appeared to show a tumor on her bone that had worn away the joint, causing the [...]
