Death – Page 3 – Red Tent Living

Last Words

By: redtentwomen May 30, 2017May 28, 2017

Day to Day, relationshipsDeath, Grief, Hope, Losing a parent, LPGA, melanoma, processing grief, staying present in grief, Tracy Hanson11 Comments

“I’m going to get off the phone now.” “Mom, tell me you love me.” “I love you honey.” “OK mom, I’ll talk to you tomorrow.” “OK, goodbye.”

Knitting Through Grief to Gratitude

By: redtentwomen May 17, 2017May 16, 2017

Day to Day, Intentional LivingDeath, Friendship, knitting, Madeline Bialecki, Mass on the Square, Vatican4 Comments

Last year, my friend Ted died from esophageal cancer. He was my seventh friend to die in seven years, and I was bereft.

Hope in the Gap

By: redtentwomen May 12, 2017May 11, 2017

Day to Day, relationshipsDeath, Easter, Eggs Benedict, Ellen Oelsen, Family, family traditions, Hope, Recovery from Trauma, Resurrection7 Comments

For most of my children’s lives Easter included the excitement of dying and hunting eggs and candy brought in the middle of the night by the Easter bunny.

Just the Beginning

By: redtentwomen May 2, 2017May 1, 2017

Day to Day, relationshipsDeath, Death of a Parent, Grief, Jean Masukevich6 Comments

“Bean, I’ve made it home!” I felt my dad’s spirit speaking to me through the pitch black night. As I stood alone with this new truth and my sister’s words “dad’s dead” summersaulting in my head, I turned my gaze up toward heaven.

How Great Thou Art

By: redtentwomen April 7, 2017April 6, 2017

Day to Day, relationshipsAging Well, Becky Allender, Dan Allender, Death, forgiveness, living in gratitude, Saying Goodbye, The Seattle School33 Comments

It was almost April and one news station reported that our city had had a mere forty hours of sunlight since October! It had been the darkest five months of my life.

Out of the Ashes

By: redtentwomen February 16, 2017February 14, 2017

relationshipsAfter the Last Tear Falls, Andrew Peterson, Death, Grief, Hope, John Eldredge, Susan Tucker21 Comments

“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” Cormac McCarthy

“No…Thank you!”

By: redtentwomen November 4, 2016October 30, 2016

Intentional Living, relationshipsBecky Allender, courage, Dan Allender, Death, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Intercession, Legacy, Love, Prayer, Soul Mate, Thank you, vulnerability22 Comments

I had never heard an explosion like that on an airplane!

This will not end well.

By: redtentwomen October 27, 2016October 23, 2016

relationshipsbetrayal, blended family, Death, Divorce, God, Grief, Healing, Hope, Love, Marriage, remarried, Renee Wurzer, true love, unexpected death6 Comments

We met in a bar after midnight.

I love you.

By: redtentwomen October 10, 2016October 9, 2016

relationshipsAcceptance, Beauty, Belief, Change, Death, Faith, Friendship, growing faith, heartbreak, Honesty, Hope, Katy Johnson, Love, loyalty15 Comments

I am not always great at asking for care. I think some of that lingers from childhood, growing up in a house where not making a mess or being a mess was considered a strength.