I’m listening to the audio book of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and I’m in love with the voice of Hazel, the 16 year old cancer patient. Driving down Florida’s turnpike in the torrential rain, hazard lights flashing, white knuckles gripping, I hear Hazel describing what it feels like to be young andContinue reading “Crazysauce”
Category Archives: Mental Illness
Emptiful
When Jesus’ friends came to the empty tomb that first Easter morning, the disciples were running in the dark, racing each other, up to some holy horseplay. Nope. No Jesus. The guys didn’t stick around the emptiness. Why should they? But Mary decided to stay. Maybe she felt she couldn’t leave the emptiness. Maybe thereContinue reading “Emptiful”
The Secret Message of Easter
Last Easter my son (three years old at the time) went to church looking for Jesus. Before entering the sanctuary, he knelt at the wire cross filled with flowers, took a yellow carnation from the white plastic bucket sitting on the ground, and added the flower to the cross. Then he yelled out, “I don’tContinue reading “The Secret Message of Easter”
Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund 