[Magdalen] Happy Christmas.

[Susan Hagen]

I do know Jon.  Sometimes it comes on like coming down with the flu -
Devastating, inexorable, painful.  I'm praying for you now that it
will lift soon.
Susan

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday I felt miserable and spent the morning in bed crying.  My mother
> died on Christmas morning 5 years ago.  I thought I had worked my way
> through her death, but no. Griefwork continues and so does life.  I got out
> of bed and spent some time with Dawn and Becca.  I called my other kids and
> kids-in-love to see if they liked their gifts. They loved 'em. This is the
> first year that I've had enough 'spare money' to get them gifts.
>
> I have been grumpier than usual and I can feel the insidious dark rising.
> I'll talk to my hospice RN tomorrow about changing my antidepressant; the
> third med change in a year...I hope I can find something that works and
> keeps working.  Those of you who know depression know how this dirty
> bastard works.
>
> Grace and peace,
> brud
>
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> It has been a pretty amazing day, and my heart is full of gratitude.  Woke
>> up later than my usual 6 am, due to late service and dawdling afterward
>> last night/early this morning.  Resolved not to attend AA at 7:30 this
>> morning, but at the last minute changed my mind, and arrived 1/2 hour
>> late.  Immediately learned that one of my favorites (turns out he's one of
>> everyone's favorites, with 30 years or so of sobriety, to boot) was in the
>> trauma ICU after a motorcycle accident.  I was able to visit after church
>> (clerical collar still works to get me in almost anywhere!), to bring
>> Christmas tidings to a banged-up and scraped-up and bones-broken friend,
>> but who was awake and alert.  I carried the news back to my fellows at the
>> 1 pm meeting.  What a gift; what a privilege!  Then off to an open-house
>> gathering at a good friend's (she and her husband were our traveling
>> companions in France this late spring), where I ate in accordance with my
>> food program and had a good afternoon of companionship.  Then home to open
>> gifts with Cheryl (my housemate), while a duck cooked in the oven.  Dinner
>> was duck, roast squash, and a dish of salad.  Lovely day, and I'm
>> exhausted, hope I can stay up for the holiday special of "Call the Midwife"
>> at 9 pm.
>>
>> Merry Christmas, my friends!  Many of you have been a gift to me since the
>> fall of 1996 when I began seminary and discovered the wild world of the
>> interwebs.
>>
>> Ann
>>
>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>> Buffalo, NY
>> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Charles Wohlers <
>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Merry Christmas to all!
>> >
>>



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