Memento Mori Part 15: The Bright and Morning Star has Risen!

Memento Mori Part 15: The Bright and Morning Star has Risen!

If you’re really sick or chronically ill, your prayer life, even if you’re not a believer, becomes pretty simple and focused. You pray for healing.  Healing in this life. Healing to avoid the chemo, surgery or whatever procedures are coming your way. You want more time and less suffering.  You want time to enjoy simple…

Memento Mori Part 12: Death as an Enabling Limitation

Memento Mori Part 12: Death as an Enabling Limitation

In the movie, The Age of Adeline, Adeline, the female lead character, is involved in a car accident in which she miraculously survives. Another miracle takes place. From that day forward, the process of normal aging for her stops. What might be considered a desirable state- always youthful- turns out to be a curse relationally….

Living Memento Mori Part 10: The Cost of Following Jesus

Living Memento Mori Part 10: The Cost of Following Jesus

Does looking at a crucifix make you uncomfortable?  It does me. Most of us would say we prefer to look at an empty cross. One person I spoke to at a church I was visiting  pointed to the empty cross behind the pulpit. She enthusiastically exclaimed, “No crucifixes at this church, just empty crosses.  We…