Kindra's Blog

Grandma. I love you.  I know that you know that, but I just want another chance to say it.  To have you hear it.  Another chance to hug your neck and kiss your cheek. My mind is flooded with such a collage of memories of the last twenty-four years....and you're in so many of them. Our nearly-shared birthday.  Spending the night with you...

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"...yet will I trust in Him."  -Job I grew up in a conservative Christian home, smack in the bible belt.  These are not unfamiliar words to me.  Yet they somehow seem to strike me anew each time I hear them.  "Though he slay me" Though he allow someone to murder me while I'm sleeping in my bed.  Though he allow me contract AIDS...

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What do you say when you are staring into the face of raw, jagged pain?  When a sister is crying out her agony, asking who's going to sleep in the bed that her brother always occupied?  When a mother is calling for a child that is no longer going to answer that call?  Locking eyes with a young man, and seeing the pain...

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It is late, and darkness shrouds the group digging the hole intended to be the final resting place of the man lying bound on the ground nearby.  He is to be buried alive. Not far away are people whom he's never met, begging God for a miracle.  Begging for God to intervene in the life of the man who is paying the price...

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What's the point of it all? What's the point of all the pain, suffering, anguish, and tears? Yesterday I looked into the eyes of a woman coming to terms with the fact that she is dying, and my heart echoed the pain that I saw there. Why could we not live a life free from pain and suffering? A life where mothers lived...

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What does that mean?  To partake of heartache...to share someone's grief.  To take on their load of suffering and anguish and ease their steps for the time in their life that you're a part of it.  To weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn.  To love your neighbor as yourself and feel their pain as your own.   Christ...

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So...we went on a vacation... ...this vacation was over Christmas break.                                                             We had a lot of fun. It was way back at the end of December.  .... And basically, I figure the pictures can...

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