Says my grandfather as he looks at the handsome face of a 13 year old boy lying motionless on our stretcher. The last time the family saw him was a couple days before Easter. Now, a day removed from Easter, they will view the body of their son one final time before he’s taken to […]
In the frustration of multitasking the details of four new calls, I decided to channel my angst into some spring cleaning. A new computer arrived yesterday, so in between the set up I threw all of our old lets-save-this-cause-we might-need-it tech in the dumpster. After cleaning out the second floor of a tape player, two […]
The Vulnerable God William Placher writes, Love involves a willingness to put oneself at risk, and God is in fact vulnerable in love, vulnerable even to great suffering. God’s self-revelation is Jesus Christ, and, as readers encounter him in the biblical stories, he wanders with nowhere to lay his head, washes the feet of his […]
When we experience the death of a love one, it asks us to be willing to reach out to others, express ourselves and work through our grief with another. Yet, few of us are willing to be vulnerable, to the detriment of our grief work … to the detriment of our relationships … to the […]
How many death related songs are out there? Being that I’m really not a music buff at all, I’m turning to you guys to help me answer my question!!! There’s obvious songs, like “Stairway to Heaven”, “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and “I Can Only Imagine”, but there’s probably hundreds of songs from genres like rap, country, […]