Today is All Saints Day for those Christian traditions that follow the liturgical church calendar.
As publisher and editor-in-chief at Cladach I am reminded of three of our authors who have passed from this life to the next. We never formally acknowledged these passings. So today I would like to commemorate these three, faithful departed saints.
Candi Adermatt
G.H. Cummings
James Troy Turner
I often think of these lines from the hymn “The Church’s One Foundation”:
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
Like them, the meek and lowly,
On high may dwell with thee;
That is my prayer as we remember these three Cladach authors who have gone before us:
Candi Adermatt (1947-2015)
Candi worked in the Office of the Provost at Azusa Pacific University as a freelance doctoral-dissertation editor. She belonged to East Valley Authors. She found her greatest pleasure in spending time with her sons and their families. Candi authored the contemporary novel Love Rekindled.
George Herbert Cummings (1929-2019)
Herb had three careers in his long life: serving as a local pastor of churches in Colorado, California, and Oregon. Then as a licensed family counselor. And finally, as an author. He had two daughters (one of whom is yours truly). Rev. Dr. Cummings authored the book Making It In Marriage.
James Troy Turner (1949-2022)
Troy was a Vietnam vet who had a gift for writing poetry in which he creatively expressed his disappointments, questions, dogged faith, as well as observation and insights into life. He found metaphors in the grit of everyday life. He lived in Colorado.
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I thank God for the faithful lives they lived. May they rest in the peace of Christ.
Both we and those who have gone before us are part of the mystical body of Christ and the communion of saints.
God be with us all and help us to keep our sights on the “really real” but unseen, and bring us into full union with our God forever.
