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Letting Go

Letting Go

  • May 21, 2019
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Compassion, EOL Decision Making, From Grief to Grace, Helping Others, Saying Goodbye, Uncategorized, Waiting Time

Death is not a tidy process. I've answered too many 3 am pages from the hospital to know that death does not honor anyone's schedule. Death can arrive under the stark glare of fluorescent lighting and the faint whiff of…

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Showing Up:  On Four Legs Or Two

Showing Up: on Four Legs or Two

  • February 21, 2016
  • Beryl Schewe
  • From Grief to Grace, Helping Others

Some dogs come to us; others we seek out. Pansy arrived in a pick-up truck. She had been abandoned by the side of the road near our family farm.  My father-in-law picked her up and brought her home.  Pansy was…

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Standing On The Shoulders Of Saints

Standing on the Shoulders of Saints

  • November 10, 2015
  • Beryl Schewe
  • From Grief to Grace, Gratitude, Paying it Forward, RAK

I picked apples last weekend. You wouldn’t think one apple tree could possibly be so prolific, but my kitchen tells another story. I’ve made applesauce, apple pies, fruit leather, and apple crumble. We’ve eaten apples with caramel, and apples with…

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Praying Our Goodbyes

Praying Our Goodbyes

  • November 3, 2015
  • Beryl Schewe
  • EOL Decision Making, From Grief to Grace, Gratitude, Saying Goodbye, Waiting Time

Years ago, when I worked at Abbott as a chaplain, I was paged into the hospital in the middle of an icy night. Abbott didn’t generally page in chaplains unless a patient was close to death, and this patient had…

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Plan B: Gratitude From The Ashes

Plan B: Gratitude from the Ashes

  • October 13, 2015
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Balance and Integration, Embracing Plan B, From Grief to Grace, Helping Others, Waiting Time

Tom’s Burned Down Café is a “no shirt, no shoes, no problem” kind of place.  The bar is a ramshackle assortment of tarps and tents with cheap beer in a funky/grunge environment and signs that read “We cheat the other…

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