I found a book by a young woman who is telling my story, Except mine began 50 years ago and is still ongoing. She was the model Christian child/teenager/young adult until events caused her to question the religion, she grew up in. It began with the events following September 11. Questions no one could answer.…

(I wrote this about a month ago. I wasn’t sure how to finish it at the time.) Mary Ann passed a year ago today. It has been a sad day, but not a depressing one, I miss her very much, but I know she is better off. She went peaceably and I don’t think she…

Just when I thought I had all the demons of the past year under control, a troubled high school kid drops another one on the pile. I haven’t been to Uvalde in many years and probably don’t know any of the shooting victims or their families. But I have long ties to that beautiful little…

I found a book by a young woman who is telling my story, Except mine began 50 years ago and is still ongoing. She was the model Christian child/teenager/young adult until events caused her to question the religion, she grew up in. It began with the events following September 11. Questions no one could answer.…

(Note:  This is a digest of two articles I recently read.) There is great mystery in the suffering of the innocent.  Perhaps, it is better just to accept it as a mystery rather than try to explain it.  One of our earliest recorded examples is Job of the Hebrew Scriptures.  Apparently, Job did not take…

Christmas this year didn’t start well. It began the night before when melancholy, set in.  This would be my first Christmas without relatives or spouse in 52 years. I woke up on Christmas morning with no desire to move. My first thought was to lay in bed all day and let it pass.  But, I…