My Spiritual Windows

Today after a full body scan, my daughter got the news she is cancer free! Her summer was long this year, not the normal playing in the sun and vacationing - but a time of finding her inner strength and seeing a choice made as she put it "to kick the ass of cancer from her!" What had started almost 10 months ago after a minor car accident and pursuing for more answers to pain in her neck which would not subside, the diagnosis had been made. As her doctor told her the news on her day of diagnosis - the good news is you were in a car accident, the bad news is you have cancer. She took a day to cry, vent, though she never said "why me?" Instead, she said "why not!" And started her new pursuit to choose differently. The pain in her neck continued and she kept fighting.. Using medical assistance, spiritual assistance through healing, prayers and being anointed by an aging priest she sought for in retirement after leaving the parish. She filled her days l...

Curiosity in a child never leaves a dull moment, especially with my eight-year old grandson Aidan. Always thinking and never short on expressing his thoughts. This morning as he was riding with his mother and knowingly already late in getting to school, they sat and waited at the stoplight across from a local graveyard. Unknowing to either of them, a worker at the same time walked out of a fresh grave and lit a cigarette. Seeing the man, Aidan made the statement he would like to be buried in that graveyard; since you can walk right back out again. :-) As his mother started pulling away as the light changed, he pleaded to turn around again so he could have a chance to speak to the "Zombie" smoking the cigarette - after all he was already late for school! In an instant the mind of a child stretches distances we have forgotten how to tread as adults. with wonderment and curiosity still going forward beyond logic and reasoning in finding the answers they seek each day. What i...