My first few days I struggled with feeling as if I wasn’t being chaplainy enough. I would spend time with the patients, and quickly, I would learn if their children were wonderful, or if they provided a source of anxiety, I learned where they lived, what they did, and generally, whether I wanted to know it or not, theirContinue reading “Reflection: Not everyone needs a chaplain”
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journey
I’m a big believer in the journey. I think that it’s important to value every life experience that you are introduced to, the ones you barely endure and the ones your wholeheartedly enjoy. Something that has come to be representative of this for me is a prayer labyrinth. As you can see, there’s only one path to the center; this isContinue reading “journey”
The Trinity
Being captured in a moment in which you see yourself from the outside, the world makes sense, and you get why you are finally where you are supposed to be in that moment. This is what most good music does to me. I don’t classify good by the type or really even the talent…but musicContinue reading “The Trinity”
Nakedness and the Divine
It was one of those late Summer mornings, the ones that start to look like Fall, but when you go outside, summer attacks your senses with heat and the sounds of bugs. I was heading to yet another doctor’s visit where I would inevitably end up naked, or partially naked in a doctors office, myContinue reading “Nakedness and the Divine”
