Hi! Dear reader. Thank you for reading my blog posts. I have changed to a new domain so that it is easier to find me and hopefully you are getting a notice in your email when I post. My new domain is CharleenBurghardt.com I have a new post entitled Beyond […]
Chaplain Stories
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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. […]
The look of concern on the faces of the nurses was close to the expression of fear. These three nurses were well acquainted with life threatening and crisis situations, they were used to responding quickly, they responded to emergency C-sections, they held full term babies who died after birth, they […]
Wow! This Charleen – my first blog post. I am so happy to share my blog, Unexpected Glimpses, with you. This is a blog about seeing the sacred in the ordinary. I’m hoping to share times when I see the sacred in my work as a hospital chaplain. I hope […]