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“A Path Through Suffering – Discovering the Relationship Between God’s Mercy and Our Pain,” by Elisabeth Elliot | Denise Day Spencer

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March 18, 2011. 8220;A Path Through Suffering – Discovering the Relationship Between God’s Mercy and Our Pain,” by Elisabeth Elliot. Filed under: Book review. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 7:47 pm. Instead of writing about grief I’ve decided to do something different and write about. On grief. You’re still not getting much of a break from this, are you? Sorry; it’s where my life is these days. A Path Through Suffering — Discovering the Relationship Between God’s Mercy and Our Pain. Parables of the Cross.

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One-year anniversary | Denise Day Spencer

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April 4, 2011. Filed under: Personal reflections. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 8:26 pm. Michael, you always said you thought that when we died we’d be amazed at how close heaven and earth had been all along, and we just didn’t realize it. No, we don’t realize it. How can we? I hold your shirt to my face and breathe in your scent. Where was it that you went. You forgot to pack before you went away. I take your books from off the shelf, the pages worn. You loved the words, the lore. A search beyond would yield.

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The year the magic died | Denise Day Spencer

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January 2, 2011. The year the magic died. Filed under: Home Front. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 11:05 am. It’s time for reflection on Christmas 2010–my first Christmas without Michael. The stocking so he crammed the stuff into a brown paper bag he labeled “Christmas Bag” with a ballpoint pen. I saved that precious little bag for years, and would give anything to have it now. 8221; (That tradition never had much of an explanation; it was simply fun, I guess.). Is that all we’ve got? We need more lights! I did...

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Denise Day Spencer | Just another WordPress.com weblog | Page 2

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October 15, 2010. A good ninety minutes. Filed under: Home Front. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 5:53 pm. Last night we made a social worker smile–“we” being my grief support group and the social worker being Barb, our group leader. She asked us to share about changes that have taken place in us, in our homes and in our personal worlds since we lost our loved ones. Yes Avoiding the loneliness of the empty house? Probably that, too. 8221; And they did. Barb went on to caution us that at the next meeting, &#...

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Children’s object lesson: The Parable of the Sower–part 4 | Denise Day Spencer

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Children’s object lesson: The Parable of the Sower–part 4. SCRIPTURES: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, Luke 8:4-8, 11-15. OBJECT: a healthy potted plant. This is our last talk about Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. You remember the farmer who sowed his seeds. Some fell on a hard, dry path; others on rocky soil; still others in a bunch of weeds. None of those seeds ever became the healthy plants. If the seed is the gospel, what does this mean for us? 3 Comments ». Thank you for everything. Very useful. 8212; August 13...

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Magical Mistoffelees | Denise Day Spencer

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November 26, 2010. Filed under: Home Front. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 8:28 pm. In the past year I have lost three cats and one husband — not exactly in that order. Since I’ve written a lot about my husband, today I’d like to write about one of the cats. I write about one and not two or all three not because I didn’t care for them all, but because the one had such an interesting — at times even bizarre — life. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Just in case you don’t know, Webber’s. He also seemed to kno...

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Just moments | Denise Day Spencer

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February 1, 2011. Filed under: Personal reflections. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 6:48 pm. A friend sits down to eat supper with her husband. I overhear her telling him all about her doctor’s appointment that day. I realize that now if I have health problems or concerns, there’s no one who will care quite like a spouse cares. I’m talking with a student. She asks, “When you were my age, did you ever wonder sometimes if you’d ever get married? Don’t waste even one! Another Facebook friend enters a thread in wh...

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Holy Week drama: “Voices” | Denise Day Spencer

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February 23, 2012. Holy Week drama: “Voices”. Filed under: Creative Ministries. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 2:56 pm. Holy Week drama Voices, by Denise Day Spencer. Monday: James, the disciple. EMCEE: Welcome to our game show, Voices! Our contestants will be people from the life and time of Jesus Christ. Their goal will be to identify the voices of people from their lives from only one sentence. Sound easy? It may be more difficult than you think. EMCEE: Are you ready to be our first contestant today? JAMES:...

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53 and holding | Denise Day Spencer

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January 10, 2011. Filed under: Personal reflections. 8212; denisedayspencer @ 4:53 pm. When someone doesn’t want to acknowledge aging with another birthday, she often picks an age and claims to be holding there. Generally it’s a number ending in “9.” But for me the number is 53. 8221; all over the front of the card. Inside I printed an original poem that began, “Bet you’ve always wanted to be the just-right age of 53! Michael was four months older than me. Each year we’d celebrate his birthday ...In spit...