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First, the update: My mom continues to fade – she’s now asking for pain and anxiety meds round the clock – a big change from a week ago. She has only short periods of relative alertness, and her waking/sleeping are…
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A note from the cancer rollercoaster
Writing from a Starbucks in Tamarac, FL: We learned last week that my mom knew she had breast cancer for at least 2 years, and hid it from everyone in her life: she continued to work at a doctor’s office…
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Strapped onto the cancer rollercoaster
I got a phone call 11 years ago to tell me that my dad had just been diagnosed with leukemia. I remember thinking that I’d just been put onto a roller coaster I didn’t actually want to ride. And I…
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Growing pains – part 3
“Leaving a church because you’re not ‘being fed’ is a sign of spiritual immaturity.” This might be true. Or false. I once had a conversation with a person who headed both children’s and women’s ministry in her mid-sized church. Sunday…
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Down the rabbit hole and into a writer’s life
I wasn’t paying attention to some big things God was doing in my life 30 years ago, but I had an opportunity to do a little bit of time travel yesterday. Birthday boy Bill and I went to see “Love’s…
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Growing pains – part 2
One reason the question of whether it is possible to “outgrow” a church keeps coming back to me is because of the process described in Ian Michael Cron’s semi-novel Chasing Francis. The book is an interesting hybrid of history lesson,…