I have never known an agony like this. I remember walking my child downstairs early one morning, and placing her in front of her favorite toys, trying hard not to pay to much attention to what would eventually become inescapable. The truth that my once typical child was now living in someone else’s world. A world which she did not recognize.
No amount of desperation…
I left Houston, Texas, on a spiritual quest in the balmy fall of 2005 and, after much wandering, found myself in Taos, New Mexico in the cold white month of January 2006. I was working on an intriguing spiritual writing project with hospice doctor, John Lerma about people who see angels when they’re dying.
Several times I tried to leave Taos, but
Foreword Pastor had forgotten how long they’d known one another; Tamara had been with him when he failed to graduate because of a steroids scandal and she fell right along with the rest of the church society when he gave a charismatic plea for redemption. His infidelity had always been looked at as just vicious…
My separation happened when I went off to a school for the blind. I was five when I started kindergarten. Within two years, all of my energy began to change. I could no longer catch fireflies by myself. I started bumping into trees and other objects, and tripping over things in the yard like fallen tree branches.
And uneven ground would make my feet tremble for fear I would fall down and get hurt…
For the past few years, I have gone on an annual women’s spiritual retreat. I had never been on a retreat before several years ago. The only other time I voluntarily lived with women was in college and only then because boys were too messy and smelled funny.
To be perfectly frank, in the past I never liked women all that much. I usually…
A powerful monarch called a holy father – everyone said he had healing powers – to help him with his back ache.
“God will help us,” said the holy man. “But first let us understand the reason for these pains. I suggest Your Majesty confesses now, for confession makes men face up to their problems, and liberates much guilt.”
Annoyed at having to think about so many problems, the king said…
