Tita Moments

19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 1:19-20


Those of us reading this blog have all recently endured 4 sequential deaths since May and yesterday we found out that Bob’s father has gone to join Rosalie in Heaven only after 30 plus days of her passing. This makes 5 deaths in 4 months within our extended family. Tough summer to say the least!

It would be easy to be angry at G-d and question his existence because of all the tough stuff we have had to endure. James warns of that in the passage above. We need to listen to the voice of G-d calling us to be his servants! Time is too short to be angry.

As each of us ponder the meaning of each death, I can’t get over the number of times I want to call Tita and tell her how I feel about all of this. Unfortunately she was one of the casualties of this dreadful summer. This is a hard time!

I want to call her and tell her about Philip’s new dorm and school, Sarah’s goal of hitting 4.0 this semester and Lizzy’s future driving ( even in her car). As hard as this is, I have found that we have circled the wagons and depend on each other more than we ever have before. Whether it is by phone or email we are communicating better as a family than we ever have before!

What a huge breakthrough this is for us. It sucks that so many people have had to go be with the Lord for us to do this but G-d works in very mysterious ways to say the least. His Will is what we need to seek regardless of the impact to us.

My heart goes out to Bob as he faces another parent being gone but I hope he knows how much we care about him and that we are here for him.

I know each of you have your “Tita Moments” as I do and in some instances breakdown while openly sobbing in grief and I hope you do because that is the cleanest part of recovery. If we didn’t mourn and openly cry then I would question what we are about!

Wednesday brings another, and I hope the last, death for us for a long time. Regardless, we must acknowledge that G-d is in control and loves us beyond all measure!

Come Father and envelope us in your Grace and hold us close to Your bosom as we mourn our loved ones who have gone ahead of us to your Heavenly Kingdom. Amen


Peace be to all.