Category Archives: Poetry

Pat’s Epiphany

Posted on July 5, 2018 by thebows99krug

In the gospels Christ teaches us to believe “all things are possible.”  Many Christians assume this means that if only we have enough faith we can fix anything, “ask and you will receive.” So, when a loved one is dying … Continue reading →

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49 years married to Pat – words to tell our truths.

Posted on June 15, 2018 by thebows99krug

We knew right from the beginning that we were destined for each other. Just 12 hours after meeting her and asking her out (November 18, 1968) I asked her to marry me.  Twelve days after that she wrote me that … Continue reading →

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Pat’s on God, Love and Religion

Posted on March 23, 2018 by thebows99krug

Pat was a very deep thinker and read extensively. She read Jacque Ellul (Anarchy and Christianity); Tom Harper (Life after Death); Arthur Schafer (The Death of Public Morality; a Civilization in Decline); Eric Kierans (Corporations Over All); David Brin (The … Continue reading →

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Thy Will be Done

Posted on January 17, 2018 by thebows99krug

I sometimes feel like I’m being punished for some sin I committed against God; especially when I can feel neither God nor Patricia within me – just the deep empty loneliness. Could it be I am being punished for loving … Continue reading →

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Love is everything! I will love Patricia forever!

Posted on January 2, 2018 by thebows99krug

Like both Sheldon Vanauken and C. S. Lewis I can’t imagine Agape or Eros coming twice. I’m still very much married to Patricia and still very much in love with her. I shall be forever. Patricia and I were lucky … Continue reading →

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Love and Death: to Patricia my beloved

Posted on December 7, 2017 by thebows99krug

Pat, this whole year is as if I have been living our last year physically together tear by tear, over again. All the special days and anniversaries were times of vivid memories relived and tears. Well now I am in … Continue reading →

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Jealous of God!

Posted on December 5, 2017 by thebows99krug

Sometimes a dream can speak to one of your innermost truths. My dream last night was one of those dreams. Both C.S. Lewis and Sheldon Vanauken write about the surviving spouse of a Devoted Christian becoming jealous of God. It … Continue reading →

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Christians NEVER say goodbye!

Posted on November 14, 2017 by thebows99krug

Christians NEVER say goodbye! For in eternity there will be “time enough”.   If we share Christ’s death we shall also share His resurrection – that is the whole point of the Eucharist.  My beloved Patricia is in the arms of … Continue reading →

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My Departed Spouse is within me here and now!

Posted on November 13, 2017 by thebows99krug

Had one of those dreams so real that you feel your departed spouse and you are actually together in a heavenly Eden. Once again it was along a rocky shore like the shore around White Point Beach N.S. that Pat … Continue reading →

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In the beginning there was LOVE!

Posted on November 2, 2017 by thebows99krug

1 John 4:7-9: “7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In … Continue reading →

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