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#39 My ALS Journey—Consumed
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#39 My ALS Journey—Consumed

December 27, 2023January 11, 2025

“The world tries to silence our expression of feelings of hopelessness and despair. This “shushing” breeds shame and an overall feeling that seeking comfort is selfish. As a […]

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#38 My ALS Journey—The Path and the Box
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#38 My ALS Journey—The Path and the Box

December 26, 2023January 11, 2025

This blog of mothers made me laugh out loud, especially her discussion of sitting in the designated handicapped seating area in the church. Mother did not like Boxes. […]

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#37 My ALS Journey—A Good Week
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#37 My ALS Journey—A Good Week

December 13, 2023January 11, 2025

Before my mom was diagnosed with ALS, I would describe her to people by saying she “ran circles around my dad.” Which, actually is saying a lot because […]

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Hi! I’m Tricia, my mother’s daughter.
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Hi! I’m Tricia, my mother’s daughter.

November 25, 2023November 26, 2024

Hi! Welcome to Sweet Speakable Sorrow. My name is Tricia, and I am my mother’s daughter. The day my mom, Susan Catlett, died, I removed her blog, Susan’s […]

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#26 My ALS Journey—Special Blessings
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#26 My ALS Journey—Special Blessings

January 12, 2023February 15, 2025

It’s storming outside my office window as I write this post.  Looking afresh at my mother’s words makes me feel two things. One of which is reflecting on […]

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#12 My ALS Journey—Where Do You Run
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#12 My ALS Journey—Where Do You Run

September 17, 2022February 15, 2025

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress;     my eyes grow weak with sorrow,     my soul and body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish     and […]

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"Life is unspeakably sad until you recover the lost language of lament. Then it becomes 'speakably' sad and an authentic journey into His presence begins."

Larry Crabb, quoted in A Sacred Sorrow by Michael Card

Welcome to Sweet Speakable Sorrow! If you are here, you may wonder why anyone would want to think about grief or suffering, let alone talk about it. Yet, God is a God who hears us in our sorrow and longs for us to bring our complaints to Him. Sweet Speakable Sorrow is a home where I learned, as taught to me by my mother, to appreciate and cultivate the language of sorrow and give it back to God in praise.

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"Life is unspeakably sad until you recover the lost language of lament. Then it becomes 'speakably' sad and an authentic journey into His presence begins."

Larry Crabb, quoted in A Sacred Sorrow by Michael Card

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