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Why I’m in Therapy. And Maybe You Should Be Too.

Jan 22, 2020 | Christianity, Community, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, grace, grief, happiness, healing, Living Spiritually, Nature photography, photography | 7 comments

I’m in therapy. Not just counseling, not coaching, not mentoring. Therapy. Those others are helpful and powerful. I’m a counselor, coach, and mentor myself. I need therapy. Deep. Hard. Soul cracking work. A recent painful, unexpected transition woke me to this. It...

Waiting on God in the Doctor’s Office

Dec 16, 2019 | God Sightings, healing, Jesus, Living Spiritually, miracles, story, Writing | 12 comments

I recently underwent a procedure. A prostate biopsy. Looking for cancer. I’m not a whiner, but the words that came to mind to describe it are painful and degrading. And, yes, I’m that old. The nurse asked my name, birthdate, and what procedure I was there for....

A Funeral, a Wedding, and a Life and Death Lesson in Easter

Apr 17, 2017 | Eugene C. Scott, grief, healing, Jesus, John Updike, Marriage, pain, Uncategorized | 6 comments

A Funeral [ File # csp17118221, License # 3291308 ] Licensed through http://www.canstockphoto.com in accordance with the End User License Agreement (http://www.canstockphoto.com/legal.php) (c) Can Stock Photo Inc. / honored A few months after my dad’s funeral my mom...

My Heart Attack, the Barr Brothers, and Prayer

May 20, 2016 | healing, Living Spiritually, miracles, Uncategorized | 6 comments

The poetry of the Barr Brothers’ song Beggar in the Morning brought me to my knees. It resonates like a rueful modern psalm. The music is a prayer too, pulsing and ringing behind the words like a crippled but hopeful heartbeat crying out to God. Or maybe I hear the...

Four Reasons Blogs With Numbers in the Titles Won’t Change Your Life

Jan 14, 2014 | Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, happiness, healing, Jesus, Living Spiritually, Meaning, mystery, story, Uncategorized | 13 comments

You may not realize it, but it’s likely Frank Gilbreth, Sr. impacted your life. Don’t recognize his name? In the early 1900s, as a bricklayer, Gilbreth developed a more efficient, simple way to lay bricks. Soon the ambitious, creative Gilbreth and his wife Lillian...

How Helplessness is Good

Mar 26, 2013 | Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, healing, Jesus, Living Spiritually, Uncategorized | 7 comments

Spending time in a hospital is torture. People are always coming to visit and nurses and doctors are always bothering you with thermometers, needles, medicine, and bedpans. They think they are trying to help. Why can’t they leave a poor sick guy alone? When I...

Eugene C. Scott

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Why I’m in Therapy. And Maybe You Should Be Too.

Waiting on God in the Doctor’s Office

A Funeral, a Wedding, and a Life and Death Lesson in Easter

My Heart Attack, the Barr Brothers, and Prayer

Four Reasons Blogs With Numbers in the Titles Won’t Change Your Life

How Helplessness is Good

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