Tag: prayer
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Gethsemani Journal
After cancer, I made a new birthday rule for myself. Every year, I would celebrate by either doing something I have never done before or something I fear. Post COVID, I expanded this to include taking a trip by myself, something reminiscent of trips I used to take to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky.…
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Christmas Hits Different
When a patient’s family longs for hope, they often seek out that hope from me. They have been told one thing from the medical team and now crave a different diagnosis from a higher power (meaning God, not me). What I often tell them is that, in the end, when the medical team says there…
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P.S. From Yesterday
As I drove home from my Wednesday night church gathering last night, it occurred to me that some readers may question why a hospital chaplain and pastor would not mention God or prayer in my discussion about how I deal with anxiety. Well, I suppose that, first of all, I think of it as a…
TRA.Perspective 