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Who Knew?

It was an unexpected reminder of my loss, another surprising realization that widowhood continually impacts me in so many different ways, both large and small.

Remain Small: The Gift You Give by Thinking of Yourself Less

My wife, Angie, and I just returned from four months on the road. We traveled over 13,000 miles in a 24-foot motorhome. Passing through about 30 states, we traveled from Colorado down to Texas, across to Florida, up the East Coast to New Hampshire, and then across the Midwest before heading back to Colorado.

Be Still

I’m a fixer and I wanted to figure out why grief is all of a sudden pressing me in the dust. I stewed for days when I should have been worshiping. Still stewing, I went to church and the passage for expository congregational worship was Psalm 46.

Downward Mobility

I was first introduced to the phrase “downward mobility” while reading a Henri Nouwen book. At the time, back in 2003, I was just coming to grips with a diagnosis which came crashing into my life: Bipolar II.

Updated – Rachael’s Ramblings

“When I feel like I’ll never be able to pick up all of the broken pieces of my heart, it’s the other broken-hearted souls in my life who help me.

The Wisdom We Live

Incarnational wisdom allows us to recognize and respond to the truth of the season we’re in, not attempt to bend God to our will or agenda.

Losing My Daddy, Being Held by My Abba

There were times that I did not think I would ever feel happy again, ever feel joy or peace again. There are many times even now, seven months later, I don’t. But I am held by my Abba.

Hope Made Alive

Hope becomes an invitation to return face to face with the One Community in whom and for whom we were created.

New Chapters

Despite the fact that so many (in fact all of us) will experience loss and grief, as people of our culture, we know little about it, find it very uncomfortable to talk about, and are generally hesitant to enter into the grief of another.

It’s a Serious Business

It’s a serious business, this church thing. Meetings. agendas, liturgy, and form. Rules, roles, regulations keep the religion righteously routine.