Doorways, Death, and Widening Circles
How I'm holding on to faith these days
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I have found it extremely difficult to write these days. The reasons are many and varied. Travel, canceled travel, medical issues in our family, lack of sunlight in our house (this continues to affect me more than I wish it did). The fact that I used an adverb like extremely should clue you into things not being as they ought to be. I can’t even recall ever writing that word.
A few weeks ago I sat across from someone who had barely removed her coat before asking the question, “What’s going on?” Maybe it was the shift from “How are you?” to the assumption that something was going on and she wasn’t going to let me go without verbalizing it, I don’t know. Tears immediately spilled over and I spent more than half the conversation wiping them away.
“What’s going on?”