Do you want the bad news first or the good news? Happy Easter weekend to you wonderful readers. Or Passion Week or Holy Week or Passover or Resurrection Sunday if you prefer….
Category: death
Boo!
According to the National Retail Federation’s annual Halloween consumer survey, total Halloween spending this year will reach a record 10.6 billion dollars. Eeek! I am not throwing stones. I love holidays, shopping, celebrating and…
Be the GOAT.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be considered the very best at something? The Greatest of All Time? Some names are synonymous with greatness. Serena Williams. Michael Phelps. Whitney Houston. Frank Lloyd Wright….
Oh no.
Oh no. Two teeny tiny words that can convey a significant inconvenience or an entire world of grief. Maybe it’s relatively minor like your furnace stopped working or your wife got in…
Big news.
At a moment’s notice everything can change. You’ve probably received a phone call that rocked your world. News you were not expecting. A death. A diagnosis. A divorce. An accident. The kind…
Graveyard edition.
As I write this, our team is busily setting up for Fall Fest, our largest church event of the year…reaching over 1500 people in our church family, neighboring community, schools, and workplaces!…
Parenting with perspective.
I attended the funeral of an extended family member recently. She was a beautiful woman. A sweet soul. A loving wife and devoted mom. The grief was especially sharp and poignant because…
Rescue!
I have a secret. When I was little I wanted to be Indiana Jones. Which is odd because I was also in love with Indiana Jones. I’m sure there’s some psychoanalysis work…