Thank you for sharing your vulnerability with us. It is a huge risk and one you've taken courageously.  I'm blessed to be invited to sit with you here, in this Easter Season to ponder what is for many, completely unthinkable. Easter brings us so close to full conscious awareness of our mortality that it is a temptation to substitute denial for hope -- and call it hope.  At 70, this fact of mortality isn't as easy as it once was to dodge in fancy dance around the reality.  I look at the pictures of your glowing wife and child and ask my heart if there is anything I can offer for the journey?

There are these from Henri Nouwen "Our Greatest Gift: a meditation on Dying and Caring"  and his " With Open Hands".  Both really have helped in deepening the roots of Hope. Another one "Befriending Death: Henri Nouwen and a Spirituality of Dying." by Michelle O'Rourke weaves Nouwen's works together to bring the challenges of the quest to discover "purpose" .

You are living Psalmody, dear heart.