SunWinks January 11, 2015: Theme: Writing and Spirituality

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I need a new God. I need somebody to pray to. For a few years now, I’ve been working on emancipating myself from my poisonous Catholic upbringing (a ridiculously belated enterprise which I only undertook in my fifties) and building a new kind of personal integrity, one that allows me, among other things, to be a poet with courage.

But being a human being, I share the religious impulse, the sense of the numinous. I want to avail myself of the benefits of meditation and centering prayer. But who do I pray to?

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Please help my wife and me

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Anything will help. It will all go towards medical expenses.

As a kid, I always loved the last scene of It’s a Wonderful Life when all George’s friends came to his rescue when he needed them. I always knew that when my hour of need happened, my friends would do the same. My hour of need has come in the form of breast cancer. I have insurance of course but even with that, the medical expenses are daunting. As hard as it is to ask, I am hoping you can give a dollar or two to help me pay these wonderful care-givers and medical procedures that are going to see me through this journey to the other side and back to health.

Blessings,
Carol Holden and Doug Westberg