By Karen O’Connor “You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand” (Psalm 16:11). A few weeks after my husband died in 2015, a good friend from church approached me. “Karen, how about taking some line dancing lessons? I […]
By Karen O’Connor I felt the aircraft wheels touch the runway and my heart thumped. My husband and I and our fellow travelers had landed in Manchester, England. It was September 18, 2013. The British American Hymn Sing Tour of England and Wales sponsored by Mount Hermon Christian Conference Center had begun. My eyes misted […]
By Karen O’Connor I remember a summer visit in Ohio with my daughter and her husband and five children. At the time Liam, the fourth of the five, was 6 years old. He and I loved to take walks and ride bikes in the neighborhood whenever I was in town. One day, however, I wasn’t […]
By Karen O’Connor In a company where I once worked, two of the employees in my department stopped speaking to one another. Period. Each said the other was difficult and disrespectful. They had no intention of bridging the gap or healing the hurt. They simply avoided one another when they attended a meeting or even […]
By Karen O’Connor I remember well the day my Grandpa Ennis, my mother’s father, came to live with our family. We had to change the sleeping arrangements to make room for him in our small apartment and again in the new house we moved to a few years later. I thought it was special to […]
