[Magdalen] Happy Christmas.

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Prayers.....
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:48 AM Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
> >> >
> >>
>
>
>
> --
> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> land of Egypt.
> Leviticus 19:34
>
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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
Mobile, Alabama