300 words a day

A couple hours after I write this, I’m heading to the hospital. I’ll be walking the halls, talking to staff. I’ll be showing up in the ER about the same time as the person coming from the crash or the person fearing a stroke or the person terrified about the baby that stopped moving. I […]

“I just don’t know what to think,” she said. The diagnosis hadn’t even been a diagnosis. It was a report that a scan had seen an object where there shouldn’t be an object. She wasn’t originally here for the scan, but someone noticed something amiss. Someone ordered a scan. And now she knew about an […]

God. I try to be honest, God, when I talk to you. I’ll be honest. I want to try to be honest. Today, I need to honestly say, we do not understand what is really going on. In just about anything. Nations, families, our own hearts, we know there is chaos and uncertainty and question. […]

Heather and I enjoyed an overnight camping trip to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in south-central Colorado. It’s an amazingly beautiful place. If you haven’t been yet, you really need to go. (More on that later.) Medano Creek meanders next to the dunes, separating the main parking lot from the sand. In […]

If you’ve sat with a family in an emergency room, you’ve faced hard questions. And you’ve struggled to figure out the way to navigate hope and despair. It doesn’t matter if you are a chaplain or a pastor or a friend that showed up in a hard time. You get questions and you have to […]