Tag: inheritance

For All the Saints

November 2, 2025

Jerry Buegler.  Elmer Buegler.  Gertrude Buegler.  Grace Moody.  Elliott Moody.  Lyle Tjosaas.  Carol Tjosaas.  Phillip Moody.  Charles Moody.  Jim Campbell.  Kimberly Devine-Johnson.  Tom Hunstad.  Matthias Meester.  Robert Roubik.   These are my names.  The names of people, precious to me, who over the years I have lost.  These are my names. You have your names.  Your own list of people that you have known and loved, and who have died in faith.  When … More For All the Saints

The God who Waits

June 14, 2021

Mark was a functioning alcoholic who I met when I was doing my student chaplaincy at a treatment center in the Twin Cities.  A “functioning alcoholic” is someone who is addicted to alcohol, but is able to maintain, at least for awhile, their jobs, their families and their lives.  Their addiction often does great damage in these … More The God who Waits

Inheritance

January 26, 2017

I have a friend whose mother decided that she didn’t want to have any arguing or conflict among her kids over her “stuff” after she was gone.  Her solution was simple:  She got three packs of post-in notes, each in a different color, and went through her home, sticking the post-its on the back of … More Inheritance