Depression

The Two Inescapable Tomb Times

Edvard Munch. Melancholy. Art Museum of Bergen. I am alone, waiting in the tomb. There is nothing else I can do. I try to believe the darkness and stillness here will allow something new to be resurrected on the other […]

Nothing Falls But Into Life

John Singer Sargent. Black Brook. Tate Museum. Jesus did not come into history to condemn our behaviors and failures but to affirm that they can become a holy offering and a source of hope and new life. Failure is a […]

A Letter From Betty

Dear Ones, In my room here at the nursing home, there is little for me to do. I can no longer see to read, I can’t hear, and now my rapidly waning strength keeps me from my walks in the […]

A Letter From Betty

Dear Ones I reflect anew on my own inner journey, travel once again by memory, from decade to decade. Each of my nine decades has affirmed one reoccurring theme: a call, the cry to let go into the Light. For […]

Take This Cup From Me

Edgar Degas. Melancholy. The Philips Collection, Washington, DC Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done. True prayer is not so much about asking for things and desiring an outcome […]

My Hidden Life Awakened

All right, Lord, I’ve been reading about what a good Christian should do and how I should live my life, but I want to say to You that it’s not working for me. You promised me joy, You promised me […]

Spiritual Winter

Winter is a time of stripping, a season of bleak and barren ground. But just as we see it in nature, we must also go through these seasons in our own tender souls. Seasons when everything is cold, even our […]

Depression

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