Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It is a frustrating, agonizing, humbling experience to see family and friends suffer—physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually—and to know there’s not a whole lot we can do to… Continue reading Of Going Ahead and Staying Behind
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Of the Wilderness… and Reminders
Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” So Moses… Continue reading Of the Wilderness… and Reminders
“Do You Want to Be Well?”
Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. “Do you want to be well?” Jesus asks the sick man in today’s Gospel reading from John 5. Pretty simple question, right? Pretty obvious answer, right? But the… Continue reading “Do You Want to Be Well?”
Of Martyrdom, in Ways Small and Large
Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It was an unusual conversation to have at 5:30 in the morning, which made it all the more of a gift. I’d been up for an hour, preparing… Continue reading Of Martyrdom, in Ways Small and Large