The Good Place
Bill and I just finished watching The Good Place, all four seasons. It is a comedy about four humans who die and go to the good place, or so they are told when they arrive. One of them, Eleanor Shellstrop, immediately realizes that she did not deserve to be there,...
“He Gets Us”
Bill and I subscribed to Peacock in February, so that we could watch the Olympics and the Super Bowl. One by-product of watching both is getting to see the commercials. I always notice the commercials about Jesus, with the tag line “He Gets Us.” All of the ones I...
Psalm 32 – Blessed!
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long....
Positivity and Holy Unhappiness
I have been thinking over two responses to my last blog post. One person said generally that my friend’s positive response to her dire illness was hard to relate to and she would have liked to know more of the process of struggle to arrive at that place of...
Imagine Heaven!
I just finished reading Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You, by John Burke. Although I read a variety of different types of books and perspectives, this is not a book I would have chosen for myself. I...
The Grace of Hospitality
Bill and I recently traveled to Texas to have three gatherings for PCF alumni, in Houston, in Waco and in Dallas. We are not spectacular forward planners; we began to communicate with alumni about one month in advance. As a consequence, we were very uncertain who...