Janet Archives - Remembering Janet

Faithfulness in Prayer

February 28, 2019April 27, 2020 Kelly Bixby

One of my prized possessions is a children’s prayer book that used to belong to my mother. The cover has a picture of a beautiful girl with long blonde hair. She’s wearing what I’ve always thought is her nightgown, but which may actually be a choir robe. The girl’s hands are folded before her in the manner proper for Catholic... Read More

Amazing Grace

January 31, 2019April 25, 2020 Kelly Bixby

My father-in-law, Ken Bixby, recently died. Years ago, he requested that “Amazing Grace" be sung at his funeral. He hadn’t told our family, however, which of the twenty-eight versions he had collected was the one we were supposed to use. That he would leave out such an important detail was surprising, because Ken was a master list-maker, organized, methodical, set in... Read More

Finding Joy

November 30, 2018 Kelly Bixby

As this most wonderful time of the year--Christmas--inches closer, many of us don’t feel the joy we’re entitled to. Some are better at masking inner pain than others are. But grief is no less a burden just because we’re good at hiding it. Personally, the stress my family and I are going through is like nothing we’ve faced before. We’re... Read More

Seeing the Spirit of God

January 31, 2018April 28, 2020 Kelly Bixby

At home in mid-January 2018, I was surprised to receive a thank you note mistakenly addressed to Pastor Janet Richardson. It was clear to me that whoever sent the postcard wasn’t familiar with Janet. They would have known her by her marital surname—Noble-Richardson—and that she had died in 2006. But the faux pas were easy to make. Working through our... Read More