The other day my husband received a card in the mail from his mother, who is in Iran. I also received cards....2 very late sympathy cards from the hospice nurses who helped care for my mother before she died. pretty much they said "she was nice, sorry she's dead." why did they have to arrive at the...

JOCOBED AND MIRIAM [18] Read Exodus 1:1–2:10 When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to...

What I have discovered last week is this: funerals are not about remembering the dead at all. They are about comforting the living. Having this epiphany I was very patient as strangers grabbed me and old ladies brought me dolls.(Here I am 24 and one lady actually tried to get me to sit in her lap...