What Is the Right Way to Pray?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The last time I saw Isabelle alive she was in the hospital after a heart attack. She was in …
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What Anorexia Taught Me About Control: How Control Promises More than it Can Deliver
Reading Time: 6 minutes It was as if she’d been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a cancer of the soul. We were shattered and terrified. Still we mobilized. We took control.
How to Hope in the New Year
Reading Time: 5 minutes When regret becomes chronic, we become bound to the past, a past that no longer is and that we have probably misinterpreted. Hoping backward then leads to anger, anxiety, shame, false guilt, powerlessness, and an inability to make decisions. We become neurotic ghosts.
Waiting for Communion Holy Saturday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Waiting. How did Jesus’ disciples feel on that dark Saturday after Jesus was crucified? Remembering the emptiness, grief, fear, disbelief, …
Receiving the Mystery: How Not Knowing Brings Peace
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first time I experienced the Grand Canyon, I stood back from its precipice in child-like awe stunned by …
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God Never Wastes Pain
Reading Time: 3 minutes June 13, 1968 was one of those summer nights both forgettable and unforgettable. The only reason I remember the actual …
Is Your Life Missing a Few Puzzling Pieces?
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eugene C. Scott My mom was no longer breathing on her own. Her lungs had collapsed and I was …