[Magdalen] Prayer request

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

At one time, you decided to spend your life with the man, until he earned
the cancellation of that resolve.  It's perfectly natural that you still
have feelings for the person.

A colleague and friend was talking about divorcing her husband, and I was
tired, and didn't do the sounding board job very well at all.

"Why on earth did you marry him?" I blurted out.

She smiled. "He has many good qualities."  And when he became ill
(something like Alzheimer's, but this was before that was widely known),
she took care of him a lot even though he was in a care center, and the
director told me that he died in her arms.  Love keeps on...

I think the most important job of love is that it is an imperfect pattern
of the love of our Lord for all of us I guess that's why it's so strong.

May all of you find some good out of all of this, and may you be able to
focus on the good...

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> For my ex-husband, Joe Cangialosi, who has been hospitalized this morning
> with congestive heart failure.
> My daughter just texted me; she's on her way over the mountain to the
> hospital.  That's all I know right now. He has Parkinson's and recently had
> a kidney removed because of a malignant tumor. He turned 75 on Wednesday.
> I'm surprised at how hard this has hit me...and I'm between services at
> church, so I need to be somewhat put together in a few minutes.
> We've been divorced for 33 years, but have done family things with our
> children and grandchildren, and I helped with the care of his mother while
> she was still at home. He's a good person, but spent a very long time as an
> active alcoholic. After a failed intervention in 1982, the kids and I
> left.  Prayers for them, too, and I guess for me.