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Chp 26 While Mrs. Ocie Van Blarcum fit in comfortably in the highbrow world of St. James, she was no stranger to the soup lines and homeless shelters in Golden. She and Ellen had seen each other often in such places. She understood the difference between troubled mind and troublemaker. And she recognized in Ellen all the signs of the former. A wounded soul, a lost sheep, a “least of these.”
— May 09, 2026 08:08AM
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Chp 35: It is another of life‘s great mysteries that sadness and joy can coexist so compatibly with each other. I wonder if on this side of heaven, either one can be complete without the other.
— May 09, 2026 12:15PM
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Chp 35: Theo, I appreciate that you are such a sensitive man. You have a tender heart.
Not tender, Asher. Broken. My expertise with sadness is hard earned. But I realize more and more that it is a gift. Living with sadness, accepting it, is easier than trying to pretend it isn’t there.
— May 09, 2026 12:14PM
Not tender, Asher. Broken. My expertise with sadness is hard earned. But I realize more and more that it is a gift. Living with sadness, accepting it, is easier than trying to pretend it isn’t there.
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Chp 26 Mrs. Ocie Van Blarcum was a matriarch of St. James, a venerated and lifelong member whose family name was empaneled in a grand window that covered most of the sanctuary’s west wall. She knew well and lived devotedly the ethic of James “faith without works is dead” she was not merely capable of saintliness, she was saintly. Some would have argued that she was a saint.
— May 09, 2026 08:04AM
