Light a candle

Click on the candles that are on the sidebar (it will take you to a posting from 2 November 2008) and say a prayer for Esther, one of Saint Mary's belles... one of the wonderful ladies who were an institution in my former parish. She is dying, though we don't know how close. Despite my no longer being there, the family asked for me to go pray with them for her. The interim is fine with it; he is at his home out of state until Friday. So I got in the car, drove over the mountain pass, up the valley, alongside the river, up the spine of the Vermont Piedmonts to anoint Esther, say the prayers and then spend four hours with the family before returning south to here.

Perhaps the phone will ring in the middle of the night. Perhaps it won't. Now whatever happens is between God and Esther.

[photo from her 90th birthday party last April, three weeks after she fell and broke her shoulder and hip]