Tag: Grief
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Lose Your Father Lose Your Son Lose Yourself
Maundy Thursday, washing feet and sharing a meal. This is what Jesus does the day before he goes to die. Before he goes to a garden to pray to ask His Father if there is another way. Good Friday, the crucifixion. He goes to the cross and cries out “My God, My God Why have…
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Wholly Weak: There’s Room for Suffering and Celebration
This year Easter feels weird to me. I don’t know if it’s because last year Easter was 3 weeks earlier or what, but it just feels like it literally came a little late. Like I’m catching up to it. It’s also odd that there is a fair and rodeo this weekend near Charleston and Wrestlemania…
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I Have Not Forgotten
In some ways, it was fitting that I began this journey to Israel on Father’s Day. Today is 2 years to the day that my dad died. There are so many things I would have loved to show him. But what’s more, there are so many people I wish could have met him. I wish…
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Where is the Christ of the Christian?
Profession of faith is a scary thing. In some countries it could cost someone their life. In this country, it gives permission for people to say they believe in Christ and practice things that are the antithesis of what he did. They lead churches that look and behave more like corporate business meetings with a…
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Major Depressive Episode Season 6
It could be that people experience traumatic situations and just deal with it better or have better support systems or do not focus as much on the loss and have a positive view of the potential opportunity for a restart. They are blessed with self-confidence or self-assurance or favor or popularity and they are able…
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Allowance for Lament
I have been generally struggling with many Christians seeming inability to deal with lament. I don’t know whether it is the trap of the positive thought movement or if people just fear emotions other than happiness, but I’m finding people are way quicker to condemn individuals for lamenting than for expressing happy idyllic skewed images…
The Reconstructed 