Before the baby was born, prayers were whispered into the night that this new life would enter the world gently, safely, and surrounded by love. This was so. Thank you God. In the early years of baby food, diapers and tantrums, prayers were whispered into the night that the little one would grow to loveContinue reading “A Prayer for Supernatural Power”
Category Archives: bi-polar
The Man Who Wanted To Pray
It sounds so unchristian of me, a Christian minister, but one time I actually called the cops on a man because he came to church…a man who came to church during a psychotic episode. And it broke my heart to make the call. This man first came a week earlier to talk with me inContinue reading “The Man Who Wanted To Pray”
The Devil is in the Diagnosis
The nurse asked me to bring a Bible to the psychiatric ward. It was the summer of my seminary training as a hospital chaplain in Honolulu at Queens Medical Center. I was the on-call chaplain that night. Through a long maze of dimly lit and deserted hospital corridors, I reached what seemed to be aContinue reading “The Devil is in the Diagnosis”
Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund 