Nov 12, 2012 | A Day in the Life
Today I left home with a mental list of all that I needed to accomplish. I thought I would start the day preparing for my afternoon class—Women in Christian Tradition. We were scheduled to explore how Jesus treated women. It was too important a topic to handle poorly,...
Nov 11, 2012 | A Day in the Life
Today I was greeted by a referral in my mailbox. It told me the attending physician thought a visit by the chaplain would be helpful for the woman who had been admitted to the psychiatric unit. She was experiencing grief over the loss of a child. As I sat with this...
Nov 10, 2012 | A Day in the Life
Today I woke up with a plan. I work for Together For Hope Arkansas, a non-profit associated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s national rural poverty initiative. Together For Hope Arkansas works in Phillips County, which sits right on the Mississippi River,...
Nov 9, 2012 | A Day in the Life
Today, I spent time with some amazing folks, doing one of the things I love most about my job. The staff that I work with is in the middle of what we call “Exploratory Conference.” I have the privilege, and I do consider it that, to hear people talk about and process...
Nov 8, 2012 | A Day in the Life
Today I questioned myself; I fretted about all the possibilities for failure. Today I celebrated my own uniqueness. Today I prayed. Today I wrestled with Scripture: opened a commentary, then closed it when it wasn’t useful and took the text into my own heart instead....
Nov 7, 2012 | A Day in the Life
Today I am up early for my morning routine—coffee and devotional time. For several years I have tried to read scripture before anything else in the morning, and to also let the last words I read each night be scripture. Morning prayer starts my day right. As the...
