A prayer for the sixth Sunday of Easter

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. […]

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When a chaplain prays.

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 […]

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The work in front of you.

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 […]

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