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Barbara Carson Todd
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New Creation

·Nov 15

Four Things I Learned Immediately After My Husband Died

And The One Thing You Can Take With You. — NOTE: These are some excerpts from my journal, of my husband’s experience of dying, going to Purgatory and then on to Heaven. Your soul has its own unique journey to make, but God rescues every soul that loves and chooses Him. FIRST Your personal judgement before Jesus Christ does not…

Purgatory

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Four Things I Learned Immediately After My Husband Died
Four Things I Learned Immediately After My Husband Died
Purgatory

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Crow’s Feet

·Nov 7

When Love Is All You Have Left

It’s enough to get through the next five minutes — “How are you doing?” I try a half-smile and change the subject. Quick, ask about their kids, their mom’s dialysis, anything. The only ones who get an honest answer to that question are my five wonderful children, my rock, and the only reason I’m still standing. “How is it today?”…

Death

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When Love Is All You Have Left
When Love Is All You Have Left
Death

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New Creation

·Feb 21

If God Wanted To Be Friends

What Would You Say? Could You Say Yes? — Joan Osborne sings, “What if God was one of us? What if you came face to face with Him in all His glory…what would you say?” What did He say to the apostles? Not much, at first. Just “follow Me,” and they did. He touched their hearts, I guess, and…

God

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If God Wanted To Be Friends
If God Wanted To Be Friends
God

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The Only Way To Walk On Water

·Jan 10

On Pilgrimage, Looking For Answers

WHEN THE ONLY WAY THROUGH IS ON OUR KNEES “Where’ve you been?” someone asks. “I haven’t seen you for weeks.” Last summer, my husband fell and broke his leg in three places. It took a long time to mend, but his pain only grew worse. By late October, we discovered…

Healing

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On Pilgrimage, Looking For Answers
On Pilgrimage, Looking For Answers
Healing

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Life By Joe

·Nov 7, 2022

“His Name Is John The Beloved”

COMMUNICATE WHAT REALLY MATTERS My younger son, Joe, can’t speak or use his hands to type or hold a pencil. But he’s an intelligent young man, full of questions. He communicates a lot by eye gaze and body position. …

Catholic

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“His Name Is John The Beloved”
“His Name Is John The Beloved”
Catholic

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The Only Way To Walk On Water

·Oct 13, 2022

Call and I Will Come To You

Looking For An Amazing Relationship? Ask, Knock, Seek and Find I didn’t stumble across Isaiah 43 until I was in my 40s. It was a revelation: “Because you are precious in My eyes and I love you.” Foreign words, something you’d read in a romance novel. Said to someone else…

Bible

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Call and I Will Come To You
Call and I Will Come To You
Bible

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Crow’s Feet

·Oct 5, 2022

When My Mother Finally Stopped Criticizing Me

And Why I Wish She Hadn’t — I grew up on the Peninsula, just south of San Francisco, back in the 1960s and 70s. It was beautiful, and affordable back then, green hills rising into the Santa Cruz mountains, planes from San Francisco International taking off over the Bay, heading towards newly-built Foster City. We rode our…

Family

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When My Mother Finally Stopped Criticizing Me
When My Mother Finally Stopped Criticizing Me
Family

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New Creation

·Oct 5, 2022

Losing Your Identity On the Upper West Side

New Location, New Life. Who Are You Anyway? — When my husband and I moved to New York, my new job involved commuting from Long Island to the Upper West Side, where I worked as a production coordinator for ABC. For a fourth-generation Californian, this was an entirely new lifestyle. My previous commute had been a short, carefree drive…

Bible

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Losing Your Identity On the Upper West Side
Losing Your Identity On the Upper West Side
Bible

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The Only Way To Walk On Water

·Sep 19, 2022

To Serve And Be Invisible

I spent years working as a cantor/church organist in the rural parish where my children grew up. Once they left home, I remarried and moved further north into the Catskill Mountains. There, my husband and I joined another little Catholic community “up the mountain.” They already had plenty of cantors…

Catholic Mass

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To Serve And Be Invisible
To Serve And Be Invisible
Catholic Mass

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The Only Way To Walk On Water

·Aug 22, 2022

Angels, Let Me Know You’re Here

Listened to the song by Train, Calling All Angels. I need them close, these celestial messengers. Once you experience the exhilarating presence of angels (and realize they’ll come when you ask) you’ll call them often. When I visit my oldest child, I pray for angels to accompany me on the…

Angels

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Angels, Let Me Know You’re Here
Angels, Let Me Know You’re Here
Angels

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Barbara Carson Todd

Barbara Carson Todd

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Writer, editor, advocate, occasional organist/cantor. You can find me at barbaracarsontodd.com or on https://nyaddcares.org.

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