My soul wept when I walked into the cold sterile hospital room where my then partner sat slumped, rocking herself on a hard wooden rectangular box with no blankets or pillow. She looked up at me with anger in her eyes and I instantly knew what was coming…..this was my fault. The sobbing that she […]
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Which one do I listen to when I have an eating disorder?
“Put on the whole armor of God.” Eph. 6:10-11 One of the most significant conversations I had while a chaplain at the Children’s Hospital in Denver was with a 14 year old girl who was in the eating disorder unit. I was covering for one of our staff when the girl noticed that I was […]
The Power of Spiritual Support Groups
For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.Isaiah 54:7 written anonymously One of my son’s has OCD. It’s not the kind that people who keep their kitchen cabinets organized say they have – but the kind that sometimes makes it impossible for him to get out of the […]
I Was Sick and You Visited Me
“Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him. When they lifted up their eyes at […]