Do yourselves a favor and click on my link at right to The Anchoress’s blog. Through several heartwrenching, transcendent posts, she invites us to visit the lingering, awesome, and “awe-full” deathbed of her beloved brother-in-law. As you soak up these posts, you’ll feel a deep hush still your spirit. Start with her December 1 post, “At Journey’s End.” The story continues with “The Kindness of Strangers,” “A Moment of Grace,” “In the Spirit of Christmas…,” and “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.”
I wish I could set up direct links on the posts I’ve mentioned, but my computer won’t let me. (Another possibility — I haven’t figured out how to do it yet. But let’s pretend that’s not true, shall we?) Search through her archives. Truly, you will be richly rewarded.
Just go there, with haste.
A Child is born in the manger.
A loved one lays dying.
And our spirits say, “Shhhh …. shhh ….”