October 28, 2005
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I just returned from a one-day, round trip flight to Pennsylvania for my great uncle Ben’s funeral. He had asked that I would sing at his service, so despite my classes and work, I wasn’t going to miss it. He was a great man —
Anthropologists have discovered in all rites of passage that there are three stages of process: Separation: Leaving the familiar, the exodus Liminality: A marginal stage, limbo, tension, shaping, regular rules don’t apply, the wilderness (from liminus, meaning threshhold) Re-Incorporation: Re-joining a community, crossing a threshold,
FROM LEWIS, A GRIEF OBSERVED He first published it under another name, so as not to hurt anyone who loved his writing. The response to it changed his mind. “You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears…” “The time where there
Humility is an accurate perception of your strengths and weaknesses, given in submission to God for the benefit of others. (Peter Fitch) True humility builds community; humility is made to go somewhere. We die to our own I sense of right and wrong, for the