Category: Meditative
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The Merits of Pain and Loss
I recently ran across a song I wrote when I found out we would be having twins. It's an incredibly cheesy poem, wherein I fantasize about all the fun adventures I'll be having with the twins: running around and rough-housing, the projects we'd work on together, the conversation's we'd have... the fun experiences I'd introduce them to.
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Raising Kids Who Can Reason
I want my kids to be able to understand what they believe, and why. I want them to ask scary questions, and evaluate the answers. I want them to be able to think of truth as something beautiful, even when some truths are ugly. I want them to be able to accept that some truths can’t be known, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still search for them.
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Faith in Healing
A friend, who has been suffering from a painful illness for the past few years, was recently advised that healing had not yet come because of a lack of faith, and a lack of speaking as though the illness had already been cured. I was asked for my perspective on healing.
It's a difficult topic, and one I struggle with myself sometimes, but here's what I've concluded:
I absolutely believe in healing, because I absolutely believe in miracles.
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Analyzing Brittany Maynard
For those not in the know, 29-year-old newlywed Brittany Maynard has brain cancer. In April, she was given six months to live. Rather than drag it out, she has decided to choose the day of her death for herself; namely, Nov 1, 2014. It’s a controversial decision that has a lot of people vocalizing opinions in favor and against her. I decided I might as well join the noise and weigh in with my thoughts, so here they are.
