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10/19/2025

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09/05/2024

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06/26/2022

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06/26/2022

Sunset at Waikiki The Hau Tree!

09/02/2021

Sometimes when you’re just not feeling it, remember this:

Me: Hey God.

God: Hello, my love.

Me: I'm falling apart.
Can you put me back together?

God: I would rather not.

Me: Why?

God: Because you aren't a puzzle.

Me: What about all of the pieces of my life that are falling down onto the ground?

God: Let them stay there for a while. They fell off for a reason.
Take some time and decide if you need any of those pieces back.

Me: You don't understand! I'm breaking down!

God: No - you don't understand.
You are breaking through.
What you are feeling are just growing pains.
You are shedding the things and the people in your life that are holding you back.
You aren't falling apart.
You are falling into place.
Relax.
Take some deep breaths and allow those things you don't need anymore to fall off of you.
Quit holding onto the pieces that don't fit you anymore.
Let them fall off.
Let them go.

Me: Once I start doing that, what will be left of me?

God: Only the very best pieces of you.

Me: I'm scared of changing.

God: I keep telling you - YOU AREN'T CHANGING!! YOU ARE BECOMING!

Me: Becoming who?

God: Becoming who I created you to be!
A person of light and love and charity and hope and courage and joy and mercy and grace and compassion.
I made you for more than the shallow pieces you have decided adorn yourself with that you cling to with such greed and fear.
Let those things fall off of you.
I love you! Don't change! Become! Become! Become!
Become who I made you to be.
I'm going to keep telling you this until you remember it.

Me: There goes another piece.

God: Yep. Let it be.

Me: So...I'm not broken?

God: No - but you are breaking like the dawn. It's a new day. Become!! Become!!

Author ~ John Roedel

01/07/2020

Readers share stories of grief after losing a loved one to su***de. Readers wrote of the devastation of losing a spouse, child, parents or siblings, and the trauma and stigma that can accompany su***de deaths.

A Wall Street Journal article about the experiences of the bereaved prompted readers to write about their own losses.

01/04/2020

Losing a loved one can be financially devastating for those struggling to get by

For Lehigh Valley families already struggling financially, the unexpected death of a loved one can be financially devastating. With traditional funeral costs around $10,000, many families are choosing cremation for a loved one, donation of a body to science or just not claiming the body. Others have...

12/25/2019

Happy Holidays!

12/22/2019

Giving people a chance to grieve after losing a loved one.

A local hospital is offering a program to help you deal with the grief after losing a loved one.