Over the years that I have been working as a health care chaplain I have had the privilege of serving many families that faced a terminal diagnosis of a family member.
I enjoy watching “American Pickers” on TV. I am always amazed at the things people collect or just plain accumulate over a lifetime.
Crossroads – we all face them as we move through our lives. Sometimes the decision is easy, one alternative is clearly right and the other is clearly wrong.
Have you ever wanted to die? I have, many, many times I have prayed, “Lord, today would be a good day as far as I’m concerned.” To date the Lord has not been of one mind with me on that matter.
Recently during coffee break one of our young health care aids showed off her engagement ring. Her fiancé had gone to great lengths to make his request that she marry him memorable.
Back in the dead of winter I was a guest at a family luncheon in memory of a member who had recently passed away. It was a grieving exercise, hosted by a husband who had lost his wife.
Our nation is 150 years old, I say our nation, not because I am a Canadian, I’m not, I am still a citizen of our neighbor to the South, the United States which just celebrated its 241st anniversary of nationhood.
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” These were the words of Corrie Ten Boom a Dutch Christian who with her family hid many Jews from the Nazis during WW2 and was ultimately arrested and spent time in a concentration camps until the camp was liberated at the end of the war.
This past winter I have been watching a TV show called “This is Us”. It is an interesting drama about a young couple, Jack and Rebecca.
We want to believe many things but just because we believe something doesn’t make it true or factual. There is a strange reality in the realm of spirituality that suggests that if one believes something to be true, it is true.
