I had the opportunity and pleasure during my CPE experience to meet numerous people, both in good and troubling situations. I had one person that will always stand out for me. I first got to know him in the Emergency Department. I will call this person “David”. I was asked to take David to the washroom. David was very … [Read more…]
Trinity Lutheran Church will be holding a fundraiser to help offset the expenses of my seminary training. If you would like to attend, please send a check to Trinity Lutheran Church, 3201 Meadow Drive, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008. Cost is $15 per person. Checks need to be received by September 10th, so that enough food is purchased. This … [Read more…]
Recently, in fact this week, I started my CPE program. CPE is an acronym for Clinical Pastoral Education. At the same time, my pastor is on vacation, I am being the supply pastor for the weekend, a friend of mine is in the hospital and is depressed about a surgery they are having and I … [Read more…]
(This post has been imported from my blogspot account. If you are seeing this, do not fret….My posts will continue still on this site.) Today I make my final post to this blog. Class is quickly coming to an end and so is this project, in one sense. After this semester I will head off … [Read more…]
One of our greatest loss of life in America was due to a forced marched of the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma. Yes, this was based upon a treaty signed by the Cherokee. However, I do not believe anyone of sound mind can reasonably justify that this treaty was signed in good faith by the U.S. Government nor was … [Read more…]
I am starting to get restless a little at school. We have less than thirty days until school is out. Although I am excited, I am going to miss everyone that will be leaving. We have a strange setup here, kinda, at seminary. The only people I can more or less be guaranteed to see more than a single … [Read more…]
Yesterday, I started to watch the movie, Telling Nicholas, in my Loss and Grief class. The story is of a seven year old boy, whose mother was in one of the Twin Towers of New York, at the time of the 911 attacks. The story is a documentary around the telling of Nicholas that his mother is … [Read more…]
I just got this new site up and running. I thought it would be best to put a new post out. You may notice some issues with some of the past posts of mine. It appears that the import module I used, missed some of the spaces between words. I will go back and … [Read more…]
Okay, so this picture has some words to help out but it does say it all!
As some of you may know, my wife took a new job so that she could move out to Dubuque and be with our family. She has been working at the company for three weeks now. However on Monday she received notice that she was being laid off for one or two weeks. She took … [Read more…]