In her memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking,” author Joan Didion shares the many thoughts that flooded her heart and mind during the year after the sudden and untimely death of her husband, John. Unable to accept the utter finality of death, Ms. Didion quietly believed that maybe, just maybe – somehow, someway – her husband would come back to her.
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Dying to Grow
Jerusalem in the days leading up to Jesus’s crucifixion provides the setting for this morning’s Scripture lesson. But it is recent events taking place in nearby Bethany that set the stage for everything we’ll shortly hear from the Gospel of John. In Bethany, Jesus has been hanging out with his friends Lazarus, Mary and Martha,Continue reading “Dying to Grow”