There are moments in life when words feel too small, especially when children are facing loss, illness, or the mystery […]
Chaplain Teddy’s Guiding Light: Helping Children Make Sense of Goodbye Read Post »
Comfort and Joy “Good tidings of grief, to you and your friends, good tidings for Christmas, and a thoughtful new
Good Tidings of Grief Read Post »
This past June, a two-story house in our neighborhood was struck by lightning during an overnight thunderstorm. The strike opened
A couple of months after the pandemic started, I drove a couple of miles down Fruitvale Avenue, determined to purchase
Grace in the Garden Read Post »
I have long loved Darryl Worley’s song ‘Awful Beautiful Life’ that’s linked above. It came out around the time I graduated from college and it reminds me that life is crazy, tragic, and magic.
Beautiful Blue Christmas Read Post »
Upon occasion, we have the privilege and honor to sit with the dying, to accompany death as she visits and extinguishes the flame of life afore us.
The Human Family: in death and life, divine and mortal Read Post »
“When you were a child, who taught you how to grieve?”
All Faithful Departed: Learning to Grieve Read Post »
The kids have grown but the washing machine has not. Loads fill more quickly than in the days before hormone body odors kicked in.
Of Prophets and Pandemic Read Post »
Last week as the kids and I arrived at Operation Kindness animal shelter for our weekly hour of volunteer work, I noticed Big Sugar was in a room off the front lobby. Big Sugar is one of our favorite dogs at the shelter.
Protecting or Preparing our Children for Pain Read Post »
