[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Marion Thompson]

I dare say that if the ex needed care I'd rally round.  I have no 
expectation that he would do the same, but it's just the way it is.

Marion,  a pilgrim


On 10/2/2016 6:41 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> 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.