Thinking about Lois tonight

[logicalargument]

From my archive of old posts (almost all marked "private" now), I found, and made public, the first one I see which mentioned my friend Lois (lotus82), and to which she replied:

Prayer for friendsHard to believe - that post was over seven years ago. It's an odd thing that happens, caring about someone whose "days are numbered"; as time goes on, and the

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[elvenforever]

OMG, Ellen. *points to new default icon*

No, honest to God, I did NOT pick that out after I read this.

[catecumen]

I know that we go back some time with that icon, because I have loved Madeleine L'Engle's "Patrick's Rune" since before LiveJournal existed, but I don't remember now which one of us found this set of icons first. Either way, it still speaks to me.

[elvenforever]

I found this icon first and then you went hunting for the set. I lifted it off an LJ friend at the time. I too have loved "Patrick's Rune" since childhood, honestly, since that's when I ran across the Madeleine L'Engle books. As you probably know by now, I incorporated it into a recent Lois post.

[logicalargument]

I updated my post with Jordan Levy's translation of the second interview.

It's a strange irony that now, with Lois on the edge between life and death, I have just found out that my former pastor has a new congregation in town, so tomorrow I will be at church again, for the first time in quite a while. I have been struggling about praying for Lois, since my faith has been pretty much absent from my life for some time now. All things in their time, I suppose - but even though I know that we must lose Lois eventually, I still want to postpone the inevitable.