by JAC | Mar 8, 2019 | Fear, Lent
‘As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.’ David Brooks Lent began on Wednesday, and I am in the habit of letting go of something that distracts me from more important...
by JAC | Jul 7, 2018 | Diary, Fear, Love and Loss, Uncategorized
“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side. A sense of the dramatic, of the tragic, of the infinite, has descended upon us, filling us with grief, but even above grief, wonder.”...
by JAC | May 29, 2018 | Diary, Fear, Love and Loss, Poems, Uncategorized
To try to be brave is to be brave.” George MacDonald Today we are outside on our driveway blowing bubbles. It’s only May, and the leaves are freshly born and green, but already, now that they are here, they are foreboding of fall. I am safest in March,...
by JAC | Mar 21, 2018 | Diary, Fear, Love and Loss, Theology
“I discovered that in every end a new beginning lies hidden. It will find you if you look for it. Don’t lose heart!” Jürgen Moltmann On the way here I am thinking- is this how you felt? This awful, unnatural feeling of separation- as you drove to...
