In Your Face

In Your Face

I recently received an email from a friend who has a 1 ½ inch tumor in the back of her brain. They think it is benign but still want to do surgery. She has opted to wait and see if it grows since the recovery time would be substantial and the quality of life not...
Between Life and Death

Between Life and Death

This is something I wrote a few months ago, remembering back to a critical time in my cancer journey: Few of us ever have the experience of hanging between life and death. We don’t want to. We want to feel as if we will live forever and never have to see death. And...
When You Think You’re Free!

When You Think You’re Free!

Wouldn’t you know, just about the time you think you are free from what ails you, you are not! For some, it’s a relapse of cancer or MS or something really serious. For me, it’s just been this nasty cold/Covid/now back to the cold-type thing. And it...
Freedom Rebooted?

Freedom Rebooted?

I’ve done my time in the Covid lockup and am feeling better. I’ve been ill most of January and early February. As each wave hit, I took it in with grace, knowing there was little I could do to fight it. It’s just been good to sit on our back porch,...
Don’t Take the Bread!

Don’t Take the Bread!

This is a follow-up to my last post on Monday because washing feet was not the end of this story between Jesus and Judas in John 13. A few things go on during the dinner, but then the story returns to spotlight Jesus and Judas. Jesus seems painfully aware of Judas’s...