Searching for the Words
My husband of 40 years is living and dying with FTD, a rare form of dementia. My name is Patricia Paddey. I search for God in the midst of our days, and through this Substack, process my learnings on this uninvited, unanticipated, and unwelcome journey.
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It’s four o’clock on a sunny afternoon. My husband sits in his favourite chair, the black leather swivel in the window corner of the living room. He looks out at nothing in particular. The afternoon sun blazes through the glass, heating the...
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Early last Saturday morning, well before the sun had risen, I opened my weather app to discover the day held the promise of sunshine. After what felt like an especially long winter, that forecast made the thought of some fresh air and a bri...
The darkness is real.
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“The darkness is real. But so is the light,” said my spiritual director during our most recent monthly Zoom meeting. “Ask God for signs that He is at work.”
I scribbled down her insight and her...
Persons with histories
I’ve gained a new appreciation for the human brain since the onset of my husband’s disease. Over and over I find words from Psalm 139:14 rumbling through my mind; we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Take the structure of the brain, fo...
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My husband of 40 years is living, and dying, with frontotemporal degeneration—a rare form of dementia. My name is Patricia Paddey. I search for God in the midst of our days and process that journey here.
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