Carrying the Wounds – June 8, 2022
“Even if we stay alive, we shall carry the wounds with us throughout our lives. And yet I don’t think that life is meaningless. And God is not accountable to us for the senseless harm we do to one another… I’ve already died a thousand times in a thousand concentration camps. I know about everything […]
A Troubled Heart
Today, as I write this, the newsfeed is filled with the aftermath of yet another shooting at a school, where 19 little children and two adults were killed and a lot of others wounded. I want to scream, “What goes through the mind of someone that makes it ok to shoot at little children?” Instead, […]
A Thin Place
All night I walked the floor, wrestling with whether to go or to stay. I’d been raised to be responsible, to meet my obligations and fulfill my commitments. That meant staying for the board meeting of the non-profit I was directing. But my father had finally lapsed into a coma and my sisters would both […]
Misfit
Loss has made me a misfit. Lost in my own life. My older brother died recently. Though I had in many ways been hoping for his release from the sufferings of disease, even expected it for about a week, it came as a shock. And with the shock, came a world of paralyzing sorrow. Strong family roots, shared values […]
