Ancestor Veneration
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When the Seed Does Not Bloom in Plain Sight 🌱✨
Lately I have been sitting with a quiet realization — one that feels both ancient and immediate. It began as a contemplation of the parable of the seeds:some falling on rocky ground,some on dry soil,some on fertile earth. But instead… Continue reading
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Ke-tu-rah 🌬️Life as Fragrance Now
Most people meet Keturah only as a footnote. Abraham’s other wife.After Sarah.After the covenant.After the drama. She’s treated like an appendix to a life already lived. But names tell the truth scripture often hides. Ke-tu-rah means incense.Fragrance.Smoke rising.Scent without form.… Continue reading
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When the Ashes Come Home
🌒🕯️ There are moments that don’t arrive with fireworks or fanfare.They arrive quietly.Almost casually.And yet everything inside you knows: this is exact. Yesterday, I was told I can prepare to receive my mother Gloria’s ashes. Almost a year later. 49… Continue reading
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Healing Through Grief: Embracing Complicated Loss
The Call that Changed Everything… February 5, 2025 I looked over at the dining table.My heart dropped, and simultaneously began to race,as my youngest son’s voiceseemed to fade into silence.A silence replaced bya once-familiar ringtone —now strangely foreign.A ghost note.A… Continue reading
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