All Creatures Great And Small

All Creatures Great And Small

Help me to understand this, there are animal lovers who are so kind and compassionate towards little innocent creatures. These same people prevent animals from being killed. They object to experimenting on the bodies of animals for medical research. These people care...
Hiccups

Hiccups

I was in a Restaurant tonight. I saw a young woman who knew of me through CBIB and she had some mutual friends who worked with our CBIB Funerals. She came up to me and said she had been seeing CBIB on Face Book.  After our brief meeting she followed me into the...
Dust In The Wind

Dust In The Wind

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind. Years ago, these words from an old song played over and over in my mind as I traveled to California to my mothers funeral. My family and I boarded a rented sailboat, we said a prayer together as our Father emptied the...
Small Acts Of Kindness Has It’s Own Rewards

Small Acts Of Kindness Has It’s Own Rewards

Once I was working with a Hispanic woman who worked as a maid for a New Orleans downtown hotel. She didn’t own a car and lived with her aunt. We spoke on the phone often before CBIB – Compassionate Burials for Indigent Babies had the funeral for her baby....
Heart of God

Heart of God

Away from the madding crowd and the steady pulse of the busy city, no longer rushing, pushing, or racing. As I now relax on my country porch in silence. I am resting in front of a fans breeze in the morning air listening to the summer locust humming in the pine forest...
Take Up Your Cross And Follow Me

Take Up Your Cross And Follow Me

Often CBIB is asked, “So what do you do?” Like Simon, in the scriptures, he was asked to come carry the cross. We are likewise asked to carry the cross of grieving parents. We have parents who come to us crippled from the task of such a grievous cross, to...