[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Since divorcing in 2000, I have come to appreciate a deeper meaning of "til
death do us part". So long as we have children together, and maybe even if
we didn't, our lives are bound. The courts end the legal obligations of
marriage but cannot alter the emotion or the moral obligations. What I
might or might not do for my ex, I would do for my children.

On Sunday, October 2, 2016, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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.
>


-- 
Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda