A year before my grandfather died, I remember sitting with him on the front porch of his small Cape Cod style home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A few weeks ago, I found myself needing to request a shift off at my hospital where I work as a chaplain. However, while requests
It had something to do with a funeral—or so we were told. But within the documents buried away in the Library of Congress lay a
In a small, plastic box in my office closest sit a pile of neatly folded letters. While the letters are old and the ink in
As a hospital chaplain, whenever I am called into the room of a patient who has died, I find myself tending to their family and
Last week, I found myself standing in the hallway of the unit in my hospital which had been housing our COVID-19 patients since the pandemic
Most of us in the U.S. are still in a sense of shock at how quickly our lives have changed in such a short time
Our entire global community is in the midst of a pandemic that has affected every way of life. On a social level, it has limited
For those serving in professions where they are working to help the needs of others, having boundaries such as limiting communication between yourself and those
To this day I can remember seeing the stillness in the water in the early morning before sunrise. In a way, the water was like