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Resurrections Happen Every Day

November 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

"Mostly we grow by falling apart." - Mary Sharon Moore, spiritual director Today is the Feast of All Souls. I am heavy-hearted but filled with hope. Maybe because I am, in recent years, more attuned to death and mortality. It is one of the many treasures we have in Catholicism - to pray for the ... Read More

Grief· Reflections

Holding On, Letting Go

October 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

They say hold on.They say let go.Tension - Release.Tension - Release.I've stood on the precipice Of life and deathFar too long - TarryingWorryingTeetering.Will I fallOr will I fly?There is no middle groundNo compromiseOnly yesOnly noWhat will it be this time? In holding on I find hopeBut in ... Read More

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Endings and Beginnings

June 10, 2020 Leave a Comment

The perfect ending: Ben and I together, sharing a sunset or maybe a bottle of wine. It is a quiet moment, one of shared tranquility, and it is in the silence that I am struck by the fact that things have shifted, and we survived some sort of storm. I will smile and reach for Ben's hand, then say, ... Read More

Reflections

Moving from Trouble to Overcome

April 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

It was an ordinary work day for me back then. In my mid-twenties, I felt recently directionless - my only marriage prospect, a man I'd dated for four years, vanished from my life and started over with someone else. I had a college degree but no veritable work in my chosen field of psychology. The ... Read More

Reflections

Death Creates Space Where New Life Flourishes

April 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

What are the tombs in my life? I have been pondering this since Holy Saturday - a day I used to believe got swallowed between the desolation of Good Friday and consolation of Easter Sunday. But I now know that Holy Saturday represents a powerful bridge between both desolation and consolation - ... Read More

Reflections

Love Links Sorrow and Hope

April 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

I am awake early once again and it's Easter Sunday today. I glance out our back door. Dawn has not yet made its daily entrance; all remains dark, yet my heart fills with great hope in the midst of the black stillness. In many ways, it does not seem like Easter: no public Masses, no family ... Read More

Grief· Reflections

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I’m Jeannie, and I believe we don’t need permission to be ourselves.

Hi, I'm Jeannie. I'm working on reinventing myself and my life in my forties, post-childbearing years. My writing has shifted to include the exploration of topics, such as permission, ambivalence, grief, destigmatizing mental illness, and motherhood.

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