Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is becoming the life transforming experience that I had hoped it would become. I had read, and been told, that CPE was about patient care and that it was about the interior journey. It is everything that I hoped it would be and more. Our group of five spends a great […]
Today was my first day to be on call as chaplain. This was my trial run by having a nine hour daytime shift with other chaplains around before I do my first 24 hour on call (next Monday). What an experience! My primary unit of service is the cardiac care unit (yes, rather ironic), however, […]
When Jesus says, “Peace be to you,” He offers wholeness and completeness. Jesus makes us whole and complete through His acceptance and love. The wholeness and completeness is a free gift that begins a transformative process in each aspect of our life. The transformation of the spiritual core leads to the ability to respond with […]
In the forty minutes I spent on the treadmill today at the gym, I watched CNN display headlines…………Iraqi government collapsing, 1.2 million Americans will forclose on their homes in the next two years, home foreclosures will bring on a worldwide recession, global warming is causing the world to self-destruct…….and on it went. I thought to […]
A friend said to me the other day that he was frustrated because he kept praying and he didn’t feel that God was listening. I said, “maybe it isn’t God who isn’t listening.”  We have this tendency to want to tell God what God should be doing. In my mind, that is a form of […]