Half Kindled » Suffering https://halfkindled.com , but striving to become on fire. Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:39:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 The Gift You Might Need This Mother’s Day: Permission to Grieve https://halfkindled.com/the-gift-you-might-need-this-mothers-day-permission-to-grieve/ https://halfkindled.com/the-gift-you-might-need-this-mothers-day-permission-to-grieve/#comments Sun, 10 May 2015 02:38:01 +0000 http://halfkindled.com/?p=477

I love the idea of Mother’s Day: families taking time to honor those special women who have given so much of themselves. My own mother did so much for my siblings and I, that celebrating her generous love for only one day seems inadequate. For many people, mother’s day can serve as a painful reminder […]

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Recently I posted this article written by a college classmate on my Facebook page.  Later that day, a friend asked me to contrast that article to this one (be warned, the article contains vivid descriptions of what it is like to die a lingering, suffering filled death).  This post is born of thoughts I had after reading both.   […]

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