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November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I gave this talk at Growing with Grief in Durham earlier this week, representing Transitions LifeCare
"What I don’t always share with people about my time with hospice is that the first few years of my career were a crash course in caregiving, grief, trauma, and loss in my own personal life... '"
"What I don’t always share with people about my time with hospice is that the first few years of my career were a crash course in caregiving, grief, trauma, and loss in my own personal life... '"
There is a field. I will meet you there.
This is a presentation I gave representing Transitions Life Care, the hospice where I minister, at “the Growing in Grief” program at St.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I gave this talk at Growing with Grief in Durham earlier this week, representing Transitions LifeCare
"What I don’t always share with people about my time with hospice is that the first few years of my career were a crash course in caregiving, grief, trauma, and loss in my own personal life... '"
"What I don’t always share with people about my time with hospice is that the first few years of my career were a crash course in caregiving, grief, trauma, and loss in my own personal life... '"
Today's hospice centering moment.
"You are not what you do. You are not what you have. You are a full member of the human family... In times when you feel bad about yourself, try to choose to remain true to the truth of who you really are."
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"You are not what you do. You are not what you have. You are a full member of the human family... In times when you feel bad about yourself, try to choose to remain true to the truth of who you really are."
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You are the Beloved
I wanted to share our centering reflection I gave this week to our hospice home staff meeting.
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June 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's hospice centering moment.
"You are not what you do. You are not what you have. You are a full member of the human family... In times when you feel bad about yourself, try to choose to remain true to the truth of who you really are."
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"You are not what you do. You are not what you have. You are a full member of the human family... In times when you feel bad about yourself, try to choose to remain true to the truth of who you really are."
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I’m more and more convinced this is true for all of us.
June 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I’m more and more convinced this is true for all of us.
Powerful reminder from our morning devotional this morning. Even in darkness, God is yet birthing resurrection with new life.
June 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Powerful reminder from our morning devotional this morning. Even in darkness, God is yet birthing resurrection with new life.
This struck me as I read it this morning. When I summarize what I point people to in my work as a chaplain, when I lay aside religion specific to a set faith tradition, I don’t know that I could come up with a better description. This is something we long to encounter, and long to participate in.
May 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This struck me as I read it this morning. When I summarize what I point people to in my work as a chaplain, when I lay aside religion specific to a set faith tradition, I don’t know that I could come up with a better description. This is something we long to encounter, and long to participate in.
When we lose someone, we encounter reminders of them throughout our life, and at first it can be hard to know how to handle them. To hear a song, to encounter a holiday, to visit a place that remind us of them can be overwhelming.
But later this can change
But later this can change
May 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
When we lose someone, we encounter reminders of them throughout our life, and at first it can be hard to know how to handle them. To hear a song, to encounter a holiday, to visit a place that remind us of them can be overwhelming.
But later this can change
But later this can change
This approach of letting go my conceptions of God so I might encounter God in every kind of person is the heart of my work as a chaplain.
May 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This approach of letting go my conceptions of God so I might encounter God in every kind of person is the heart of my work as a chaplain.
For anyone interested feel free to join me as I share the message this Sunday at Binkley Baptist Church’s 9 am and 11 am services.
April 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
For anyone interested feel free to join me as I share the message this Sunday at Binkley Baptist Church’s 9 am and 11 am services.
From our morning devotional today. Such an important reminder in our age of mass deportations and lawless disappearing of those our leaders find inconvenient. We trust not in chariots horse. We trust in the name of the Lord our God
April 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
From our morning devotional today. Such an important reminder in our age of mass deportations and lawless disappearing of those our leaders find inconvenient. We trust not in chariots horse. We trust in the name of the Lord our God
“As we each face our own trials, our own challenges, our own moments of struggle and isolation, we are reminded of the need to not get caught up in the stress of the moment, but to look to connect with a bigger picture ourselves.”
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April 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“As we each face our own trials, our own challenges, our own moments of struggle and isolation, we are reminded of the need to not get caught up in the stress of the moment, but to look to connect with a bigger picture ourselves.”
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Job’s experience, and the experience of so many on my hospice line, also teaches the lesson that, at the end of the day, after all our questioning and all our honesty, those answers we seek are not coming.
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April 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Job’s experience, and the experience of so many on my hospice line, also teaches the lesson that, at the end of the day, after all our questioning and all our honesty, those answers we seek are not coming.
open.substack.com/pub/progress...
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The temptation Jesus faces in this text is to craft a ministry, a Gospel, and a spirituality all with only room for positivity. All about manifesting miracles. All about the victory. All about the abundance. All blessing with no suffering.
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April 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The temptation Jesus faces in this text is to craft a ministry, a Gospel, and a spirituality all with only room for positivity. All about manifesting miracles. All about the victory. All about the abundance. All blessing with no suffering.
open.substack.com/pub/progress...
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though I less and less find answers in my work, let alone my own life, as to why things much bigger than my bike accident happen, every day I witness the power of God to bring beauty from the ashes, joy from the pain and tears, life sends our way.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
though I less and less find answers in my work, let alone my own life, as to why things much bigger than my bike accident happen, every day I witness the power of God to bring beauty from the ashes, joy from the pain and tears, life sends our way.
open.substack.com/pub/progress...
open.substack.com/pub/progress...