We are the weird ones. We sign names of the dead on Christmas cards. We hang their photos on our walls. We count them in our family when strangers ask at the grocery store. We tattoo their memory on our skin. We know you may think this is strange. We are trying to tell you a secret. It is the truth we learned the hardest way. It is the other side that changed everything we knew. And today is one of our handful of holy days. Today in the Catholic Church we remember the faithful departed. Which is a fancy way of saying God's beloved. All the souls that came from God and returned to God, changing lives in whatever span of time they passed through this earth of here and now. All Souls' Day is the quiet cousin to All Saints, the overlooked neighbor next to the feast of fanfare. Almost an afterthought - if it did not hold the secret to everything. Which is that we hold within us the promise of eternity. The truth is so quiet that noise clamors to drown it out and despair … [Read more...] about for all our souls
everyday parenting as spiritual practice
