A woman named Dorcas died. She made clothes for widows in Joppa. Peter was nearby, so a couple people went to find him, to ask if he’d come and raise her from the dead. They thought it a reasonable request. And Peter came. When he walked into the house, there were widows. Their husbands had […]

Jesus was sitting with his disciples after a day of teaching in the temple. He’d just been talking with a Jewish teacher about the most important commandment. Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” “And,” he […]

God. Sometimes that’s as far as we can get.We say your name; our hearts and knees collapse. You know, we believe, the aches we are bearing:broken bodies, broken hearts, broken dreams. You know, we believe, our desires for restoration of every sort. You know, we believe, our frail faith,our fragile trust, in you, in others, […]

The man was dying. Not actively, as we say when we are confident that death will come in less than hundreds of minutes. We were talking. The dying wasn’t as quickly as he wanted. He was thirsty. The medication and the pain were drying his mouth. He gestured with his head to a plastic cup […]

Four Christmases ago was really dark at our hospital. We were in what we thought was the middle of the pandemic. One of our units of 30 or so beds was in brand new space on the top floor of a new wing that opened in August 2020. And the nurses on that floor, which […]