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Homegoing

Homegoing

As this month of April draws to a close, the prompt on Poem a Day Challenge for the 30th was “closing time.” This is the poem I wrote to the prompt. Saturday, April 21, 2018 At 3:00 p.m., we gathered ’round husband’s bed in the Hospice Hospital to bid him farewell. As we sang to him, his breaths came in short puffs with longer spaces between. “We love you, Dad.” Said one. “Thank you for your leadership.” “I’ll miss you,…

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God’s Mysterious Ways

God’s Mysterious Ways

I got the call from a fellow chaplain in Texas as I settled into a seat at my writer’s group last Friday. “Could you please make a call on Mr. Bennett’s* grandmother in Paola, Kansas?” “Sure,” I said. “But it will be a while. I’m over an hour away.” “That’s all right. Just so you see her by this afternoon. According to the nursing home personnel, she’s suffering from heart failure. They’ve called in hospice.” “Will do.” “Mr. Bennett is…

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