As you sat around the Thanksgiving dinner table recently, and someone offered you something you didn’t want on your plate, what did you say? No thank you. You declined, and your polite "no" was enough - unless Uncle Ned was really insistent that you try his brussel sprout & lima bean surprise. If only "No,…
walking through grief
I've reflected before on grief, and its impact. The truth is: to be alive is to face grief. To be alive for a long time is often to face profound grief. Gerald Sittser knows this personally, having lost his wife, his mother, and one of his daughters in a car crash -- where they were…
Another unemployment lesson
In my last post, I shared some lessons that I learned through 7 months of uncertain unemployment. Of course, the truth is: I'm still learning. And the lessons continue. Here's one more that I don't want to slip through the cracks, unnoticed. And this lesson starts with this simple idea: Be careful of pious phrases. We…
Gulping Grace 