Stories that Bridge Heart and Heaven
The burden of my choice weighed heavily. An impulse decision to help an aged friend had landed me in a desert landscape riddled with desert guilt. My insides gnawed. I Continue Reading →
Before leaving Montreal for a desert drive to Toronto, we stopped by a Jean Coutu to fill Pam’s rehab hospital prescription (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/17/desert-luck/). The diversion to a pharmacy was Continue Reading →
In a desert, lost people deprived of shelter and water hallucinate. Minds deteriorate and perceptions dim to desert dementia. The Pandemic did that to older people. Social and physical loss Continue Reading →
Arriving in Montreal as desert strangers to help my mother’s aged and hospitalized friendꟷa fellow retired nurse from Englandꟷit wasn’t long before we sorted roles (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/desert-grace/2024/02/18/). My sister-in-law Continue Reading →
Forty Days of Trials, Probation and Testing The number forty is significant throughout the bible. Biblical scholars suggest the number is not so much a signal of literal days or Continue Reading →
Evil Nearby It doesn’t bear to think of evil’s influence nearby (Faith Unfurled Back Corner Evil: https://wp.me/p89n5f-cN). And I don’t know the murdered woman found in her basement apartment on Saturday. Reports Continue Reading →