Just a quick post to say that my collection of essays about facing disease and treatment with faith is about to hit the virtual and physical bookstore shelves.
Archive for the ‘chemotherapy’ Category
Second Week of Lent: Seeking Forgiveness and Saying What Needs to be Said
Posted in chemotherapy, Prayer, spirituality, tagged Albom, Christian, encouragement, faith, forgiveness, Lent, Prayer, spirituality on March 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We are called to live our lives as if every day could be our last. As if every grudge we hold will never have a chance to be removed if we don’t act immediately. As if every word spoken in anger can never be taken back if we don’t act now. As if every sin will eternally leave us more burdened and further removed from God and those around us if we don’t seek forgiveness today.
My Soundtrack: Seize the Day
Posted in spirituality, creativity, chemotherapy, Poetry, My Soundtrack, tagged spirituality, writing, Carolyn Arends, seize the day on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Some choose “carpe diem” as a life philosophy and live the proverbial “eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die,” which indeed appears to perhaps be Horace’s original meaning. In the name of this carpe diem some get in touch with the darkest part of themselves, engaging in often self-destructive behavior. But there’s more to carpe diem than this. There’s more than one way to seize the day.
Taking on the Black Hill of Death
Posted in chemotherapy, spirituality, tagged cerro negro, illness, nicaragua, walking on December 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This past summer, I accompanied my parish youth group on a one-week mission trip to Nicaragua, where we helped build homes and a school near the northern city of Chinendega. But first, we were told that we were going to climb Cerro Negro, a 2,400-foot high volcano that had last erupted about a decade ago.
Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary
Posted in chemotherapy, spirituality, tagged chemotherapy, faith, ordinary, sacred, spirituality on December 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
…there is also sacredness in the seemingly ordinary moments of my life that, like my drive to work, all too often passes by in a noisy blur without much notice. These moments can be fleeting and seemingly meaningless, but when we take the time to reflect and allow ourselves to live a more examined inner life, we can begin to see that the sacred is all around us.
