tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post8071953851300536930..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: A Couple of JoysBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-60434665222552212402014-09-04T13:50:32.259-04:002014-09-04T13:50:32.259-04:00We prayed ignorantly for years for the gift and jo...We prayed ignorantly for years for the gift and joy of children. I wish He had not been generous, inasmuch as He stopped His ears to our years of prayers afterward and has been mingy in granting the gift of healing now, content instead to witness our daughter's suffering (granting just enough temporary ups to sharpen the agony of the ever-deepening downs) in lordly silence.Sophienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-29340314713410345942014-09-04T13:44:04.227-04:002014-09-04T13:44:04.227-04:00"...grant them (the gift and joy of children ..."...grant them (the gift and joy of children and) a long and happy life together."<br /><br />The words in parentheses once had surprisingly little meaning to me - a commonplace, a cliche. Now those words are steeped in bitterness and wreathed in wretched irony. Sophienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-10622886344281010552014-09-03T20:15:41.234-04:002014-09-03T20:15:41.234-04:00Perfect. One hand mends the other. :)Perfect. One hand mends the other. :)Louis Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04157133812801652860noreply@blogger.com