Guideposts – August 2019

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GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 41 I walked into my mother-in- law’s house, as always, without knocking. My father-in-law, Larry, h ...

42 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 or visit her. Then she won’t be lonely.” “It’s a good idea,” Eric said. “But it’s not going to w ...

43 Not long after Cindy moved to Amsterdam, Eric’s older sister got a new job in Texas. It was evident how much Judy missed her ...

44 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 Diane Stark was right to worry about her widowed mother-in-law. Research shows that social isola ...

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BY JESSICA SIMMONS, Panama City, Florida t h e hu m a n CO UR TE SY RO SA LIN D^ B EC KT ON ...

GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 47 Help was coming. But not soon enough y husband sprang the idea on me at the last minute that Sat ...

48 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 the water was knee-deep, so they could look for sand dollars. I looked up from the hunt and noti ...

CO UR TE SY JE SS IC A^ S IM MO NS 49 I could see them now, 20 feet away. Two little boys. Their mom, dad, grand- mother. A youn ...

OUR MYSTERI US FR ENDSHIP It was an idea to help my best friend. It was also my secret dream DO UG LA S^ B AR NE S ...

GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 51  A re you okay?” i asked my friend Sara as we walked to our table in Great China, our favorite r ...

52 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 CO UR TE SY GE RI^ CH RIS TE NS EN I’d enjoy that,” she said. “What do you have in mind?” “Maybe ...

to the hospital with septicemia and put on IV antibiotics. The medication seemed to work for a week or so, but then the infectio ...

54 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 EDWINA PERKINS Orlando, Florida T he sound of whimpering woke me in the middle of the night. It ...

PR ES TO N^ M AC K 55 to our room. This became an almost nightly routine. Same actions, same conversation. Ever since we’d gotte ...

56 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 WA DE PA YN E neighbor’s yard. Other times we gave up and he’d come home later. I began taping n ...

57 “How was your day, Mom?” I asked, sitting down next to her. “I hope you weren’t too lonely.” “Oh, no.” She shook her head. “I ...

58 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019 MA TT HE W^ GIL SO N MONICA MORRIS Magnolia, Illinois I t was just after christmas, and I was vi ...

59 eaten since Dad’s passing in November, after a bout of pneumonia. My mom and the six of us kids tried to carry on, but our gr ...