As a pastor, hospice worker, and someone who was involved in the long-term care of my father and mother-in-law, I have walked through the door of nursing homes many times.  At one point I realized the thoughts and feelings I (and many people) experience are something we share with that of Siddhartha Gautama before he becameContinue reading “Siddhartha Visits a Nursing Home”

The first congregation I served was one in which seven families had all experienced the death of a young son.  Just a few years before I arrived, the pastor’s son had been hiking with his best friend in the backcountry and accidentally fell to his death from a cliff.  Not long after, the friend was in aContinue reading ““Why me?””