Your Dying Spouse 528 - Hospice

The late Kara Tippetts' Mundane Faithfulness blog (so graciously kept up and running by her friends) dealt with the subject of hospice today. It's a beautiful post on accepting the grace of that stage in dying, and I'd encourage y'all to drop by.

Here's the comment I left:

"I've been told I should enter hospice care, actually should have been there awhile already, but there's no insurance, no money, and no way to get there.

"But it's OK; last night I was staggered with pain in the chest that seemed like every description of an infarct, only it was in the wrong place...above the pancreas. That may be worse!

"But the thing was, I had to deal with it all on my own (no point in waking Barbara, and she had to work today). And in dealing with this, I met another aspect of God's compassion, that this pain has a limit and WILL have an end; it's not the abyss I had dreaded.

"It's just the portal through which I have to pass."

Music from the late, great Jim Croce, with I Got A Name.

Please pardon my slow response to comments. I do my best, and your comments are really precious to me. Barb is answering many of them now. I'm running on fumes, if you don't mind a macho metaphor.

I'm grateful for the energy to have written this. I'm so glad Barbara's stepped in for many of my posts. I'm really not doing well at all.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

If you can, please do leave a comment. I am trying to answer all, and I am failing, but please know this - I read and treasure each one.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.