Musings on Life and Ministry
This is today’s sermon on Luke 2:22-40 Just as Frodo Baggins, the Hobbit, was setting about the business of stepping outside his front door, the text chime on my phone dinged. “We’re headed to the hospital,” my brother-in-law had written. I closed my book and threw it into my purse, miraculously found my keys in […]
MoreThe longest of my all essay final for Intro to Dementia was to choose a space for PWD (persons with dementia) to receive services, be it their own home, a skilled nursing facility, assisted living facility or adult day program and show in 3-4 pages, what special attention to details of dining, lighting, safety I’d […]
More“Still, still still one can hear the falling snow; for all is hushed the world is sleeping, holy start its vigil keeping. Still, still, still one can hear the falling snow.” – Austrian Christmas Carol It sounds like the hush of fuzzy slippers swooshing across the kitchen floor. Eggs and milk, pancake mix and cinnamon […]
MoreToday was the hardest day adjusting to my new normal – a normal in which my sweet and funny furry little companion of four years, OliverElizabethRobb, is no longer with us. It hit hardest today because when he died last week, Thanksgiving preparations were in place and the inertia of turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and […]
MoreAn article in the Aging in Atlanta section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on an interview with a person living with dementia who was told by her doctor, at age 49 on the day of her diagnosis “to go home, get affairs in order and prepare to die. Find a daycare to go to and […]
MoreI am leading today’s Bible study. We will process Las Vegas together. … An article by the Washington post defines a mass shooting as an incident in which 4 or more people are killed or injured by gunfire. This week, our country experienced an incident in which at least 59 people were killed and more […]
MoreOnce, when I was little, I got left at church. That Sunday had been unusually busy, and I got lost in the shuffle. I remember feeling afraid because I was alone, but also sad because I’d been forgotten. My grandfather’s greatest fear was being forgotten, because in his volunteer work in nursing homes, he often […]
MoreMy desk is partially taken up by a huge notebook housing an inordinate amount of information on dementia, and care giving and dementia; and all this for just 2 classes toward my Master of Science in Aging and Dementia Studies. I am learning a lot, and really enjoying being a student again (in the technical […]
MoreI’ve always been kind of embarrassed by the fact that a single, beautiful chord can stir me to tears – pretty significant ones – and usually at least one number in a musical show will bring me pretty close to actual sobs. Usually not because it’s sad, but because at some point in every show, […]
MoreSunday’s sermon from Romans 12:9-21 and Exodus 3:1-15 We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome someday. Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome someday. This is the first verse of the gospel hymn, “We Shall Overcome,” which became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. These words were sung by […]
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