Charles Dickens is possibly best known for the story “The Christmas Carol” that has become a Christmas standard in our culture.
Happy Thanksgiving! Oops, wrong country! You know I have been in Canada since May of 1978, 33 years.
We have all watched a TV drama in which a person’s heartbeat and breathing stop and someone jumps in, provides CPR and the person’s life is saved with no long term loss of vitality.
On August 2nd The Canadian Press reported that “A group called the Farewell Foundation is in a B.C. court today setting off what’s expected to be a long legal fight for the right to assisted suicide.”
Imagine with me for a moment that your children came to you and suggested that you give up your independence and move into a Personal Care Home where your needs could be more adequately met?
I know I write a lot about death, it is after all a significant part of a chaplain’s experience.
4 months ago, on Sunday evening, May 1st, I was just about to turn in for the night when a special news item flashed across the screen of the late night news.
By now you may have heard of or even read Rob Bell’s book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.
It was 7:45 in the morning; I had come onto Blueberry Bay, the section of Bethesda Place where our residents with dementia live.
Have you ever wished things were different? Sure you have. It is a common longing.
