Think about what you are reading.

The second of January is a rough day to go to work. After a week of parties and food, a week of thinking about all the things that had gone wrong about the last year and all the things that you hope to change for the next year, everything is a little off. And you […]

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A moment of peace.

He tends his flock like a shepherd:     He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart;     he gently leads those that have young. Isaiah 40. A few months ago, I met a family in ER. The family had been in an accident that could have been tragic, but wasn’t. However, […]

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Friday grazing.

Today is a day for grazing, browsing, recovering, refocusing. Neither of us is in the mood for long thoughts, so here are some short ones. On Monday, I talked about the marketing advent. My friend Becky sent me a link to Simplify the Holidays. There are lots of ways to bring clarity and simplicity to […]

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I’m Jon. I’m one of the chaplains here.

I never really know what’s going to happen when I walk into a hospital room. Or better, I never really know what’s happening and how I’m going to enter in In my almost best moments, I forget what happened in the previous room and what’s going to happen in the next room. I walk in […]

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Not just better together

I help people figure out the next step and how to take it. That’s a way to describe what I do as a chaplain. It’s a way to describe how I approach a couple kinds of consulting I do. On Wednesday afternoon, I presented the final report in a project completed by the Arbor Research […]

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