I’ve been busy. So have you. Busy enough that finding one long thought is challenging. But I can offer several smaller thoughts this morning. One: We move on after a bad decision. We move on after something ends. Except for a life. We go on when a family member or friend dies. We go on, […]

“Hi. I’m Jon.  I’m one of the chaplains.” I say that often. I knock and walk into a hospital room and give my name and give my role. I could say lots of other things. I could give my resume, my qualifications for being in the room. I could explain the number of other patients […]

I stood next to a couple of coworkers in the ER. We were waiting for a patient to arrive. I was hearing their conversation. (When you are standing two feet apart, it’s hard to call it “eavesdropping.”) “OTF is off the floor” was the first sentence I heard. I immediately assumed that they were saying […]

I keep mail lists, just in case. It’s what everyone says to do if you want to sell online. I created one for Lent, one for this project, one for that project. Each of those lists was for a good idea, an occasionally helpful project. After all, I wrote the Nehemiah book to an email […]

It was a very challenging day for Northern Indiana. Which meant that it was a very challenging day for people working in the hospital. Which meant that it was a very challenging day for chaplains. As each new unrelated event happened, coworkers would look at each other and say, “What is going on?” Some people […]