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Practical ways to support the grieving

How can you help someone who is spending their days in the icu waiting room, or keeping vigil at a bedside?  How do you support someone who is grieving?  Here are things that were helpful to us over the past 10 days: Practical items: Chapstick (hospitals are...

When the worst happens

This weekend my mom experienced a super rare complication from a cardiac procedure she had last month.  In fact her medical team could only find one other patient who has a similar case and it was a 40something man from South Korea a couple of years ago! My sister and...

The Trinity Building

Last week we had 20 children running around the sanctuary, child actors in the basement, older people improving their balance, several groups supporting each other as they deal with addictions of various kinds, dancers expressing their nordic heritage, a Vietnamese...

Everybody needs a system

How do you store your clothes?  Do you have a designated drawer for different categories of clothes such as a specific drawer for socks and another for t-shirts or do you jut put the clean clothes in the drawer with space each time you do laundry?  Whichever way you...

The Joy of Grief

This  week I am grieving. This morning I officiated at the funeral of a family friend. I spent the afternoon discussing grief as part of our clergy study group’s reading of See No Stranger. And my heart is full with the images and  news out of Gaza & Israel. I’m...

Loving the past and excited for the future.

This week I got to have coffee with a retired colleague. It was so fun talking about all the people we had worked with and learned from throughout the years. Names of people who mentored me as a child, who I sat with at annual conference, who I remember from district...