by Merita Atherly Engen | Apr 30, 2015 | Death, God of Our Ultimates, Points of Light, Protector, Shining on God's Character
“Momma, I want to sleep in your room with you and Daddy.” Of course. He needed closeness. But how close was too close? Death was near but unpredictable. Would he suffer from overexposure? He was only eight and he needed to be protected. At such an impressionable age,...
by Merita Atherly Engen | Jun 26, 2014 | Death, God of Our Ultimates, Points of Light, Respectful, Shining on God's Character
“People aren’t stamped with an expiration date.” The oncologist’s kind eyes and graying temples coaxed me into belief. “Prognosis for Stage Four Pancreatic Cancer: Three to four months.” My previous web search contradicted. I kept the contradiction to myself and...
by Merita Atherly Engen | May 22, 2014 | Death, Gentle, God of Our Ultimates, In Sickness, Loving, Motherly, Points of Light, Shining on God's Character
She knocked gently on the door to the room where strange, unintelligible sounds came from a crib-like bed pushed up against the wall. It was the result of her nursing assistant training, this knocking, even though she knew that she wouldn’t get an appropriate, “come...
