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Monthly Archives: April 2016
I want to fix people
I have a problem I’m just beginning to admit: I want to fix people. I want to fix people by giving them a book, loaning them a CD, reading them a scripture passage. I want to fix people because their … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, healing, hope, spirituality, suffering
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Why you don’t need God to believe in eternal life
Excerpt from, “Grief Without Beliefs” from the Huffington Post. I know that we’re alive through our offspring. You are physically an embodiment of your father’s biological and genetic essence. This includes everything from how you look to many of the … Continue reading
Being with an Alzheimer’s Patient
I found myself sitting on the floor the other day. The Alzheimer’s patient, who was sitting in her wheelchair, had covered her head in her cardigan. So I sat on the floor and she uncovered part of her head so … Continue reading
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Tagged meaning, reflections, searching
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Alzheimer’s
a raised brow light glimmers and is gone a word remembered a face a name brushes against her mind fleeting like a kiss on the cheek Are you still here or did you go away and come back I like … Continue reading
Posted in empathy, Healing, meaning, poetry, Suffering
Tagged Chaplain, Hospice, poetry, reflections
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Crossing the causeway
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Grey strippled silver in the sun fish are flashing far mirages shimmering one giant horizontal tree grey shows shapes prehistoric pachyderms on the shore white against grey now like ancient caves on a cliff face a … Continue reading
Grounded – God is in the Mud and the Mess
Diana Butler Bass in her book Grounded talks about the loss of faith in the triple layer, wedding cake view of the universe – with God in the heavens, below it the earth God created, and below that the place of … Continue reading
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Tagged meaning, Nature, spirituality, Truth
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Finding Our Spiritual Path
To find a spiritual path it is not necessary to give up our job, leave our family, change our religion, or travel to India or Tibet. We start wherever we are, not running away but right in the middle of everything. You might … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, God, grace, gratefulness, Prayer, spirituality
Tagged faith, Prayer, spirituality
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