Thanks for friends! While in seminary I did a chaplain internship at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta and was assigned to the cancer ward. Part of my required reading was the 1969 epic On Death and Dying, written by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, [1926–2004]. Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-born psychiatrist, and co-founder of the world-wide hospice movement. It was …
From Blog of Another Christian with ALS: Overcoming Regrets
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S. Lewis Source: Overcoming Regrets
When I’m weak, then I’m strong
The Principle: Strength out of Weakness In our culture weakness is not a condition esteemed nor welcomed. It is to be avoided at all costs. We have created all sorts of coverups to conceal or deny weakness. Yet it is in the moments of weakness where God chooses to show his grace and power—not by …
Grace by the barrels
In one of my first posts I recounted how on the day I was first diagnosed with ALS, the grace of God came to me in a way best described as a barrel full of peace, warmth, and assurance pouring over me. I said about that day: “About an hour later while we were waiting …