Sometimes I go about (suffering) And all the while I am being carried across the sky By beautiful clouds - Ojibway saying Survivors ask me, "Does everyone have to dredge up every moment of the past?" The answer is "no." No to EVERY moment, yes to the past. If you have read elsewhere on this …
Grace Stories
Sweetness after Trauma -2, Oma
In my family two of the sweet people were my maternal grandparents in The Netherlands (Holland) who I called Beppe (grandmother) and Pake (grandfather). They had each lived through WWI (when the Netherlands was able to be considered a neutral country), lost a farm in the years of the Great …
Sweetness After Trauma – 1
(Read War's Family Page, first) “Have you ever seen people who through some disaster were driven to great times of prayer? And have you noticed that once the disaster was long forgotten, a spiritual sweetness remained that warmed their souls?” June 12 Streams in the Desert L. B. Cowman I’m not …
