Having never lost everything in a fire,I’d like to think I’d see it philosophically,take the distant view: things are replaceable; ortranscendent view: earthly things are transitory. I’d like to think a house is a house,the bedroom (with Deb’s own colour scheme and feng shui,and my son’s painting over the nightstand),simply a comfortable place to sleep….
The word “transformational” is often used to describe the moment or experience that forever impacts every part of you. My moment came on the warm evening of June 30, 1997, when I stood with Ralph outside my parents’ home, seeing the silhouette of my father and younger sister Rhoda framed in the front porch light…
“Trauma is never the event, it’s how your body responds to an event,” says Texas-based writer and artist Jenai Auman. “Your body, your brain, your heart – you flood with stress hormones and your body is actually under duress.” Auman is completing her certification as a trauma recovery coach and writing a book on spiritual…
“Mom, I don’t feel so good.” Little did I know that those words, spoken by my 24-year-old son, would be life changing. It was Thanksgiving Day in 2010 and I had just started our routine Thanksgiving day. Getting the dinner prepared and on the table for me and my son. I’m not the greatest cook…
Throughout the world many Christians recite or chant on a weekly basis the ancient Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, with these familiar closing lines: “We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” When repeated so frequently, it is easy to neglect their inner meaning. Yet the words nevertheless enter our…
Now it’s February. We can’t forget it’s the month to celebrate Black History (I highly recommend I. Wilkeson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns), and there are some who like to acknowledge St. Valentine on February 14. Yet, I must admit, I’m finding it hard to write about non-COVID-19 things. After almost one year, this…
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