Tag: All Saints Day

• Playing with My Circle of Pianos

  I can’t remember a time in my life when I haven’t had a piano as one of my best friends. I was born into a household that had a big old upright piano living in it. Big Red. I remember trying to read its name scrolled in Old English typeface – Bush & Gerts, Chicago…

  Marian

  November 8, 2017

  Celebrations, Music, Reflections

  All Saints Day, baby grand, Baldwin, Big Red, Clavinova, digital piano, gospel music, gospel song, grand, grand piano, Lyon & Healy, matchmaker, music, piano, piano friend, piano tuner, Pink Elephants, Psalms, Sohmer, spirituals, Steinway, upright

• Ghostly Tricks

  Over the past 14 years, Mim and I have cared for more than twenty elderly people who have lived with us in our home, usually one or two residents at a time. Almost all of them have lived out their last days with us. Some of them lived with us for just a few days,…

  Marian

  November 1, 2016

  Assisted Living, Celebrations, Music, Reflections, Reunions

  Abbey, All Saints Day, All Saints Wall, assisted living, Country Comforts Assisted Living, Doris, first grade teacher, For All the Saints, friendly ghost, funeral, ghost, Halloween, Helen, Konica Minolta printer, laser printer, O When the Saints, pipe organ, postlude, power strip, practical joke, printer/copier, saints, sense of humor, When the Saints Go Marching In

• Thanks, Maria. That Gives me an idea.

  

  A couple years ago, around the first of November, Chaplain Julia of the Jail Ministry invited the women inmates worshiping together in the jail chapel to tell each other about some of their family traditions related to Halloween and All Saints Day. She especially encouraged Maria to explain to us what her friends and family…

  Marian

  November 3, 2015

  Celebrations, Jail Ministry, Personal Retreats, Reflections

  All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Aztec, Christian celebrations, Day of the Dead, departed loved ones, Dia de los Muertos, favorite foods, favorite meal, Halloween, jail, jail ministry, Memorial Day, Presbyterian Church

• Remembering the Saints – the most significant people in my life who are now dead

    Thursday of this week is Halloween, the eve of All Saints Day. On Sunday, some churches will read a list of members of the congregation who have died over the past year. This is a time of year to remember the people who are no longer with us who have been significant to us…

  Marian

  October 29, 2013

  Celebrations, God’s Love, Music, Reflections, Reunions

  All Saints Day, Aunt Edith, Auntie Emma, Bill Leslie, change in my life, christmas, church organist, daily devotions, Edith Kenseth, Eileen Scott, Emma Prescott, family reunion, friends, God’s love, God-given gifts, Gospel pianist, Halloween, Helen Knoblauch, kindness, Marion Gilberts, Mark Hjermstad, Mary Borgerud, Mom’s love, Mother’s love, Nancy Kornelsen, reflections, Royal Bailie, saints, Selma Jacobson, significant people in my life, thankful, thankfulness, Thanksgiving