Yet another friend has returned to the great eternity. Just over a year ago I dealt with the passing of five people who were close to me, some more than others. Four of them died within a seven-week span, and the fifth, my dear church sister Susan, just two months after that. At the time I remember feeling a sense of dis-ease, and although I have many spiritual tools and good friends to help me deal with this kind of thing, I was aware of “descending into greyness” and came to the conclusion that I was in a mild depression, . . . → Read More: Musings: Our Mortality
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 Leave a comment  All Posts, Musings  acceptance, aneurism, appreciation, artist, church, communication, Creator, death, DeBary, depression, eternity, Facebook, family, fear, Florida, friends, funeral, Gaeta, gift, God, grateful, gratitude, grief, heart, Italy, La Maddalena, lesson, Life, Mass, mentors, message, mortality, Muse, Musings, Naples, opportunity, Orlando, Puerto Rico, Santiago, Sardinia, soul, spiritual, thanksgiving, USS Belknap, writer I am presently enjoying several weeks in my beloved Italy. There is so much to write about but I think I have to give first place of honor to the Island of Ischia, which sits just off the coast from Naples. We arrived in Naples, via Rome, on a Thursday evening and after six days catching up with jet-lag, eating LOTS of mozzarella (among many other good Italian dishes!), and going to Bahia Blanca, a favourite beach on the other side of Gaeta, we took the ferry over to Ischia. This is an island formed by volcanic eruptions thousands of . . . → Read More: ISCHIA: Island of Flowers After our stay with friends Greg and Sherry in Minnesota, Rich and I headed west then south through the Dakotas down through Iowa and into Missouri. We had planned to stay in a small town just outside Kansas City. This was no random choice. We were going to spend a couple of days with some very dear friends from our time in Naples, Italy. I had been a team member on many CREDO Personal Growth Retreats with Rod, and Richard and I had both been involved with the CREDO Marriage Enrichment Retreats with both Rod and his wife Trish. . . . → Read More: Spiritual Growth: A Dream Realized Leave a comment All Posts, Spiritual Growth, Traveling beauty, chapel, comfort, CREDO, Daily Word, dream, Europe, Florida, friends, garden, gift, God, happiness, happy, hawks, heart, Italy, Jacksonville, joy, Kansas City, labyrinth, meditation, minister, Minnesota, Naples, Norfolk, peacefulness, prayer, reflection, relationships, retreat, serenity, soul, Spanish, spiritual, St. Augustine, UNITY, USA, VA |
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