How Lonely sits the city where silence now resides The doorways are clean and empty, the water basins full Yet, there are no ripples in the water No footprints in the walkways The corridors are silent- only filled with the tears of lament The joy of my heart has ceased, our dancing has been turnedContinue reading “A Prayer of Lament & Forgiveness “
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NO! You haven’t been here: The Singularity of Grieving Loss
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Experiencing the death of a loved one is not fact to be stated, a proposition that is an absolute truth. That a loved one has died IS a fact; that one has experienced the grief of the death is not a fact; itContinue reading “NO! You haven’t been here: The Singularity of Grieving Loss”
Death on Ash Wednesday: In Memoriam
James Napier was a man of stark truth. A man of black and white. His affability was matched by his billowing voice, a voice that was as inviting as it was stern and filled with rigid conviction. “When this old body takes its last breath…I’ll be at the right hand of the father…” He diedContinue reading “Death on Ash Wednesday: In Memoriam”
In Memoriam: Posthumous Lessons from my Boston Terrier, Jax
My little boy kept going over to the blind, opening it, and peering outside, to see if it had really happened. His mother would come behind him and close the blind again, trying to put a salve on the curious wound that had now been opened. He would not be deterred. Again and again, thisContinue reading “In Memoriam: Posthumous Lessons from my Boston Terrier, Jax”
Christ Goes to the Movies: The Conjuring and Resurrection
Our culture is a walking contradiction. Drives me crazy. We are on board with Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, or any “professional” atheist writing today…then these same people buying the books of these methodologically inept charlatans of logic, flock to theaters to see a movie about nothing more, or less, than our fascination with the paranormalContinue reading “Christ Goes to the Movies: The Conjuring and Resurrection”