Today in 2009 I found this poem prompt that I filled in six years ago, in 2003. The prompt had the first few words of every sentence. Many of the things I “wanted” I now have and YOU are part of it!
LEARNING FROM LEW: “I WANT”: a “poem prompt”
Posted on July 28, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew, Poems
LEARNING FROM LEW: Where was God when Lew was declining and dying?
Posted on July 23, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew
This quote is one of the most helpful things I have read anywhere in helping me to deal with the disabilities and death of my son, Lew. My thanks to John B. Cobb, Jr.
LEARNING FROM LEW: POEM: The Poem I Said I Would Never Write
Posted on July 18, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew, Poems
This poem attempts to explain why I wrote it and why I am writing all of these stories and poems about Lew and sending them out into the world. I want people to see him and others like him.
LEARNING FROM LEW: First day at The Home of The Innocents
Posted on July 18, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew
On a terrible day in the life of our family, God’s grace breaks through in a surprising way.
THOUGHTS AFTER September 11, 2001
Posted on July 12, 2009 by admin | Uncategorized
A Canadian friend wrote me a day or two after 9/11 and asked me what I was thinking about the terrorist attacks. Here is my reply written 9/16/2001.
LEARNING FROM LEW: Best (and worst) Social Worker
Posted on July 11, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew
My best experience of a Social Worker – and my worst – happened on the same day in the same room. One listened to me deeply and had for a long time; she helped me to see that our family was “in a heap on the floor.”
LEARNING FROM LEW: Poem – “Enough”
Posted on July 11, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew, Poems
Someone actually asked me the question in this poem.
The question prompted the poem.
LEARNING FROM LEW: Poem – “Dreams”
Posted on July 11, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew, Poems
Some thoughts about the dreams I had for Lew. I guess I could say that these dreams have come true but not in the way I had imagined.
LEARNING FROM LEW: An Emmaus Walk Vision
Posted on July 7, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew
I was a pilgrim on a Walk to Emmaus in Kentucky in 1987. This story is about something that happened to me during that experience – a means of grace from God to me. I pray it may bless you.
LEARNING FROM LEW: Moving to Hattiesburg
Posted on July 4, 2009 by admin | Learning From Lew
This is one of my favorite stories of God’s grace at work in our family.
