Dear God, Please help me in all the ways that I need it, in order for me to live life without Cathy, my blessed, departed wife of fifty-one years. I have no one to talk to; I am alone and, as you well know, I have health problems. I do not know if I should retire now from teaching; it gives me a kind of reason to go on since I believe that few people in the Department give their whole heart as I do to literacy. O Dear God, help me. I feel lost. You are my only way–the “life beyond life.” Also, I do not know if I should sell the house now and move into a little one, either here or possibly in Binghamton. O, Dear God, help me. I am so helpless now, I do not even know what to ask for! O, Dear God, help me. Tim
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