by billyzh | Dec 26, 2008 | Death/Mourning, Family, Holidays, Spirituality
A lot of people will tell you that the holidays can be a sad time. For those without or whose families are far away, it can be a tough season. And too, amazingly, so many people pass into eternity during the holidays. My family experienced that first hand as well....
by billyzh | Jun 15, 2008 | Death/Mourning, Not-Yet-Married
Some people can just chalk it up to bad karma I guess. I don’t know. But things happen. Life happens. Just because we get engaged or married, does not mean that happiness is part of the contractual agreement. This true story, relayed to me by another single...
by billyzh | Sep 13, 2007 | Death/Mourning, Spirituality
Have you ever taken a deeper look into the last days of John the Baptist? He was the cousin of Jesus, a baby miraculously conceived at birth by an older woman, a childhood friend of the son of Mary, a man who had grown up giving his life to the professing of the...
by billyzh | Apr 17, 2007 | Death/Mourning
When I awoke this morning I kept hoping it would all be a bad dream. And I would imagine you did too. Remembering the blissful disregard for reality during my four years away at college, I longed for the students at Virginia Tech to be able to recapture what for them...
by billyzh | Sep 13, 2006 | Death/Mourning, Family, Politics, Spirituality
Last month I bemoaned my bizarre summer experiences. The one thing I mentioned that kept me going was knowing that all of my family was still well, healthy, “OK”, as we say. I should have known better. Suddenly, the other shoe dropped. Shortly after my...