Category: Grief

• 4 Dec 2020

  And Death’s Dark Shadows Put to Flight

  We live in a world of pain and brokenness. We live in a world in which we feel the ominous presence of death’s dark shadows. Each time someone we love receives that dreadful diagnosis of cancer or COVID-19, we have a keen sense that this is not the way things are supposed to be. Things…
• 13 Jul 2020

  Someday

  You may not be imprisoned like Bonhoeffer was, yet your own difficulties cry out with the same sentiment Pastor Bonhoeffer expressed.
• 15 Jun 2020

  Joy in Sorrow

  You don’t need me to tell you this, but these are very challenging times for all of us. For minority communities, these pandemic induced stressors don’t compare to the stressors of daily life such as the fear for safety for you or your children. I cannot begin to understand the suffering faced by those in…
• 11 Jun 2019

  Death, Where is Your Sting?

  All humans will die. The mortality rate among human beings is 100%.  I know, this is a wonderfully positive way to begin a post, isn’t it? Though we may not experience positive emotions when we consider death, it is a reality everyone will face at some point in the natural flow of life. Death hurts.…