Survival, Reunion. A new year story to remember.
Reflecting over the past decade, I remember the best New Year, ever. After the worst year, ever. Here’s the remarkable story:
Year: 2009
Christmas—Giving Birth to Love
Christians begin celebrating the feast of Christmas today. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays rings throughout homes, in cars, on radios, in shopping malls, through halls and walls of buildings and businesses, on computer and cell phone screens. Merry Christmas reigns in streets where kids die, and where poverty, abandonment and abuse…
December Solstice Blessing
…offering you an invitation to awaken to this present day and night, this new season unfolding.
Good, enough? Give thanks.
A few nights ago, during a telephone conversation, a friend in his twenties shared, “You’re telling me I’m good enough just the way I am? That’s hard for me to believe. How come we never hear that message?” I am sad. His words ring true. I encouraged, “You are good…
Where Are You From?
Where are you from? Who are the people, places and experiences that shape and form the amazing critter of you? My son, Justin, wrote these words two months before he died.
We Remember. Lives In Review, 2009
November 4, 2009: Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, holds a remembrance memorial day. My contribution of spiritual care for the doctors, nurses, health care providers, staff, and families is to create “Lives In Review” — a one page snapshot of everyone who died at CHP or Heritage Place during…
Cap and Hat Yak
Do you believe that hats and caps can evoke, provoke, protect, name, and claim us? … Hats speak. Headgear tells our story, in subtle, often unspoken sentences and intuitions.
Jazz Apples … Where Have You Been All My Life?
Conceived in New Zealand from a marriage of sweet Royal Gala and firm, tart Braeburn, Jazz™ will rock your preconceived notions of how an apple ought to taste.
Living with expectancy, expectation, or a bit of both?
In “The Shack”, Mack ponders the difference between “expectation” and “expectancy” …
God … Any Time, Any Place?
Ask: “What are the little, very personal, and even ordinary things I do to connect with God … that I may never talk to anyone else about?”