Daylight savings time ends Sunday. How much daylight has been saved? With the decrease of daylight this time of year in the northern hemisphere don't we want to save all the daylight we can? There aren't many clock in The Little House so it will not be a big job to change them.
Sunday is also All Saints Sunday. It will be three years since Joanne's name was read in church on All Saints as one of the departed saints. She died in April so she'd been dead seven months and hearing her name revved up the grief.
There were two factors to that grief. First, and obviously, a poignant reminder that she was gone. The second factor surprised me when it struck me that her name will not be read the next year! It was the realization that now I must go on without her but her memory will begin to fade in the church community. It was a community she knew and loved and knew and loved her. Of course she is not totally forgotten but memories fade, people leave, and new people come who never knew her. Now this will be the second All Saints without naming her and her death moves toward ancient history.
Remember the bereaved and that All Saints can be a difficult time for them.
Takk for alt,
Al
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