Tag Archives: Responding to Pain

The Fourth Person

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When things go wrong and life falls apart, it’s not unusual for people to want to fire God. It would be like axing an incompetent personal assistant. Is this any way to run a universe? Or we want to go to Facebook and un-friend God – to remind him that his performance… Read more »

Excruciating Pain

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here America lost one of its most gifted writers in 2016 when 70-year-old Pat Conroy died of pancreatic cancer. Conroy’s fiction (The Prince of Tides, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini) was primarily rooted in the tumult of his own upbringing as a “military brat,” and of the American South that… Read more »

The Equation of Hope

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here So how’s your algebra these days? Most of us grow up thinking there’s only one equation that really matters: E = 0. An event of some kind happens, and that leads directly to a particular outcome.   My parents fail to connect with me emotionally, and the outcome is that I am crippled with insecurity.  Someone… Read more »