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Can a Horse Really Fly?
(The Impossible Dream)
by Nan Zastrow

Online Bereavement Study
If you have lost a loved one and are over eighteen years old, we invite you to participate in a brief online study of religious coping with bereavement. All participants will be entered in a raffle to win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Your participation will contribute to a better understanding of grief and loss. The researchers, Dr. Brian Vandenberg and Rachel Hibberd, are most grateful for your time and help in completing the study. If you have any questions, please e-mail This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . Click here to participate.

Online Bereavement Study

If you have lost a loved one and are over eighteen years old, we invite you to participate in a brief online study of religious coping with bereavement. All participants will be entered in a raffle to win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com.

Your participation will contribute to a better understanding of grief and loss. The researchers, Dr. Brian Vandenberg and Rachel Hibberd, are most grateful for your time and help in completing the study.

If you have any questions, please e-mail This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Click here to participate.

Blessed are those who mourn: they shall be comforted (Mt 5:4)

Healing the Guilt and Shame

On December 18, 1979, I was the driver in a tragic car accident in which a 17-year-old girl later died on Christmas Day. Although I wasn't speeding (35 mph) and drugs and alcohol were not a factor, I was distracted for an instant and ran head on into an oak tree which stood only two feet from the road. We had seven people in the car and none of us were wearing seatbelts. There were multiple injuries throughout the vehicle.