by JAC | Sep 8, 2018 | Linked Publication, Love and Loss, Publications
Modern Loss published a short piece of mine today. I wrote it last spring about an experience a whole year before. Like many of my pieces, it began really with a question that the writing process helped me to address. I was frustrated and wondering why I still had to...
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 | May 8, 2018 | Love and Loss, Transformation
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin Yesterday I was reading an excerpt from a new book by an old pastor of mine. He played an important role in both my life and Dan’s. He baptized...
by JAC | Apr 27, 2018 | Diary, Love and Loss, Poems, Uncategorized
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit – Life! -Emily Dickinson It’s my 42nd birthday today. I have no fancy plans. It’s not the cheeriest birthday poem, but I can’t help but...
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...