[Magdalen] Respite care

[Lynn Ronkainen]

joining you in prayer Marion, for your friends Anna and Gord.
Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 10:01 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Respite care

> On the subject, I am involved in a respite time involving 25-yr Whitevale 
> friends and neighbours.  Once bright-eyed and funny and a talented weaver, 
> Anna has descended into a frail, grey, staring and wordless state over the 
> last years, now totally dependent for all her needs.  Gord gives her 
> loving sacrificial care pretty much on his own and we have watched him age 
> before our eyes.  He has arranged a week of respite care out of a 
> newly-discovered entitlement of 100 days in a calendar year and he has 
> gone to Victoria BC for a visit with old friends, his only break in all 
> this time.  It happened that the only place he could arrange is right here 
> in Port Hope, so I am toddling over each day to spend some time with Anna, 
> who may or may not know at all who I am, perhaps a vaguely familiar face, 
> perhaps not.  I'll be able to give him a more independent view of how it 
> seems to have gone.
>
>  I pray  this is the beginning of some longer term possibility, because to 
> me they have passed that point of need.  I hope his break gives him the 
> taste for more!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim