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This is part two, following Waiting. The unwanted resource) +++ In the readings for this week of Advent, Peter and Mark talked about waiting periods. Mark starts his gospel with words from Isaiah 40. The people of Israel are suffering. They have been promised God, and they are experiencing suffering. They feel abandoned by God, […]

Everyone in the hospital has an abundance of waiting: co-workers, patients, and families. We wait. When I started working in the hospital, I wanted to do something about the waiting, something to fix it, something to make it better or easier. I sometimes try humor. I always try presence. I sometimes offer answers. Or questions. […]

God. We’re waiting. We’ve been waiting for minutes and hours and years and centuries.We’ve been waiting for answers and waiting for healing and waiting for you.We are anything but peaceful.We are frustrated and scared and worried and angry. We confess.We are mostly scared.It comes out as the rest. It’s easy for you, being infinite, to […]

It was the first Sunday of Advent. My hospital chapel message was 10 minutes of editing from ready. And we canceled the service so I could drive to another hospital and visit with two families facing the last few hours of their loved one’s life. In our conversations, it made sense to talk about looking […]

Can we agree that a forty-foot tall singing Christmas tree is not a requirement for Christmas? That feels like it will be controversial. “Who doesn’t love the choir, the orchestra, the music?” I can hear the voices of people I know and care about. I can hear some of you. In our minds and hearts […]