300 words a day

I wrote this prayer a couple months into the pandemic. Lockdowns, restrictions, uncertainties. When I looked at it this week, I realized that those particulars have changed. But the things in this prayer are actually still all true. So I’m using it again. And I understand that this is the day we call Mother’s Day. […]

She had asked for a chaplain to stop by her room. “To pray with her,” the request said. I went. I’m good with being invited to talk to God with people. (I’m good with being asked not to pray, too. Which happened in a later visit that day.) We talked, the patient and I. She […]

On Tuesday, I talked about going around to bless the hands of nurses. I put oil on 98 pairs of hands. I looked into 98 pairs of eyes. And I told NICU nurses that at least some of us know how much they love the babies. You can read what I told the rest of […]

A really helpful reflection from Rich Dixon. +++ You and I know we can’t operate, long-term, on determination and adrenaline… in the middle of Week 4, it all caught up with us. Riding only five days each week was supposed to allow physical recovery and time to catch up on blogging, social media, and unending […]

Today we’re doing a thing called the “blessing of the hands.” It’s a tradition that goes back a long time. For the past three years, our chaplains have gone to each of our units. Nurses (and other coworkers) gather in a small circle. We talk for a minute, we thank them, we put a bit […]