That’s right. Because I, your God, have a firm grip on you and I’m not letting go.I’m telling you, ‘Don’t panic. I’m right here to help you’ (Isaiah 41:13 MSG) Do you tend to think of God as impersonal or distant? Do you ever wonder if God can be in the middle of […]
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That’s right. Because I, your God, have a firm grip on you and I’m not letting go.I’m telling you, ‘Don’t panic. I’m right here to help you.’ (Isaiah 41:13 MSG) Do you tend to think of God as impersonal or distant? Do you ever wonder if God can be in the middle of […]
Do you ever speculate what it would be like to experience heaven? A special lady offered me an unexpected peek. Let me unpack the hospital encounter with a patient, Ms. Marjorie. I entered her room and introduced myself as Chaplain Charleen. Ms. Marjorie’s pure white hair surrounded her her face and […]
Do you ever wish your grief would have an end? Grief, the sadness we feel with loss, will it ever go away? You did not chose grief; it choose you. If we view grief as a journey without a specific destination, we come to the conclusion that grief cannot be […]
Can God speak through a tattooed angel? Have you ever met someone very different from you and wondered how you could relate? As a chaplain, I experienced a stirring encounter with a man who differed from me as much as oil differs from water. Etched in my memory is the […]
Snow engulfed south Texas with a historic four-day storm that sustained sub-freezing temperatures this February. Multiple inches of snow blanketed the landscape, roads and roofs. Our city shut down because of dangerous travel conditions on icy roads along with power and water failures. The storm created an unparallel and unforeseen […]
Does God meet us when we have disappointments, lost dreams, disillusionments, disease and death? Those are questions that I ask myself and God, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus rattled us. We had assumptions that life would be normal and we had the illusion that we could control our […]
Fear gripped her, she could not breathe. What was going on? Her throat hurt dreadfully with something large in it. Where was she? Trying to make sense of where she was, she asked herself what was going on. Was she alive? Something made a beeping noise Beep, beep, beep … […]
I gazed into the room enclosed by glass sliding doors to view a white blanket draped over a body on a hospital bed. No other person was in the room. This image will be forever etched in my mind, for he was the first COVID death I witnessed. I did […]
“You provide an essential service!” I was informed of this in writing. Then I heard my boss say to me. “Chaplains are needed in the hospital during this time of COVID -19 Virus.” This was March, 2020, the year that COVID-19 came to the United States and infected our community. […]