Jan 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
Theology, Culture & M.E. Brian Schmidt, BGS, M.Ed. [& M.E.] The following is an excerpt from my All Saints’ Day, 2007 reflections on living with M.E. after having the illness for 17 years, and a month after a dear person who had M.E. took her life after...
Jan 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
WELCOME TO MY LIVING ROOM A swirlingSoftnessFills the room, as a fog.It gently brushes my face, with sweetness and refreshing.A presence. I look through the fog and seeFaces of joy,Which in one world would be seen as a face of the disabled,but here it is the face of...
Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn…Where there is no vision, the people perish”. Proverbs 29:2 &18(KJV) Dear all, As I look towards 2008, along with many others I am sure; I cannot help but...
Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today I celebrated Christmas Day with my dad in his Extended Care Unit—at a luncheon filled with people’s bodies and minds frozen to various degrees, and staff and family members cheerfully feeding them, greeting them, teasing them. The wife of one of...
Dec 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
You have been living, drifting on the surface.You have been living in the desert with only a sip here and a sip there.You have been waiting season after season for evidence of a fertile womb.Like streams of fresh clean water that appear to people of the desert,like...
