March 24, 2019 David’s in the hospital. He fell off a ladder in Falmouth trying to clean the roof of our home. Eight feet up, he was trying to scrape lichen off the roof when the ladder slipped back. He fell face first, his nose hitting the rung of the ladder, leaving multiple facial fractures. […]
The age-old angry question is, “If there is a God, then why do horrible things happen?” A new movie, The Shack, based on the book by William P. Young, goes further. “How does one get past unspeakable tragedy and relentless pain?” The Shack is a visual parable that answers both questions. Mack Phillips (actor Sam […]
[Photo taken in 1973 of Suzette and her father, Steve Martinez, who passed away in 1982.] Lately memories of loved ones, now gone, are tinged with “I wish I told them [fill in the blank].” Recently, I had the chance. A meditative exercise is designed to heal the unsaid with direct conversation. I tried it […]
(Photo above is of Maureen Hancock, spiritual medium) Life goes black when a child dies. Gail and Jeremy Hunter, ages 64, lost two adult children in 2006 and 2009 accidents. Many would say their Anjuli and Drew live on in spirit. Of this, their parents are certain because of messages through a medium. “My husband […]
Mary, Jesus’s mother, spent her last days in Turkey, and I visited her house, surrounded by maple trees, high above the ancient Roman ruins of Ephesus, five miles from the Aegean Sea, now rebuilt by the Catholic Church as a holy place. After Jesus entrusted his mother and apostle John into each other’s care, it […]