May 30, 2023

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She Made Her Own Shroud

Mary Dalton (Williams) would be my maternal great great great grandmother. I’ve been reading through various family history in connection with some of my writings here. I was contemplating that one of the things my great grandmother (Margaret Jane Kennedy Carter) most recalled when she gave contributions to this extensive collection of genealogy and stories, was that her grandmother made her own shroud. Out of curiosity I did a quick search on making your own shroud to see if it...

How I Fell in Love With My Mother

It took me nearly sixty years, but I think I finally have fallen in love with my mother. I will never be as much in love with my mother as I was with my father, but I had an unusual breakthrough. What woman isn’t ‘in love’ with their mother? It’s why they shop together and bake together, and share women stories and woman jokes. It’s why they fix each other’s hair and eat chocolates together and put on nail polish...

Blessing, Cursing and the Irish

Anyone who knows an impressionistic bit about Irish/Celtic culture and history might readily think of various poetical Irish Blessings such as, “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.” I was able to type the above from memory not because I necessarily...

Various Thoughts About Generational Blessing and Cursing

I’ve been thinking on these things for quite awhile. Those who have been in various Christian settings have likely heard references to a number of scriptures that indicate that both spiritual blessing (legacy) and spiritual cursing (legacy) can flow through families in a variety of ways. It feels daunting in my mind to lay out too many different scriptures (let alone connect them to family specifics) that one should seek to better understand regarding these things, so I will try...