Tag Archives: PTSD
Deep Thoughts and Musings on a Lazy Fall Saturday
I have been down with an ear and sinus infection most of the week which has added to my insomnia and made me pretty useless. It is no fun to get up in the morning with vertigo. When this happens … Continue reading
The Church Maintained in Love: Thoughts on Life a Year after Being Asked to Leave a Church
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right….” Martin Luther It has been a year since I was … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Religion
Reflections on 9-11-2001: How the Day Changed Me….
We are coming up on the 10th anniversary of a date that changed the country. I wrote about it last year in an article entitled 9-11-2001: A Date that Will Live in Infamy 9 Years Later. This year I am going … Continue reading
Filed under History, iraq,afghanistan, national security, traumatic national events
Reaching the Lost Christian Generation
“God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.” Jürgen Moltmann Over the past couple of weeks I have been thinking about encounters that I have had with Christians of various denominations who have suffered a … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Pastoral Care, PTSD, Religion
The Tapestry of Life: How PTSD and Combat Stress is a Part of Who and What We Are
I have been dealing with the effects of Post Traumatic Stress over 3 ½ years. In that time I have had my struggles going ranging from falling into the abyss to a measure of recovery and occasional relapses. It has … Continue reading
Filed under faith, Military, Pastoral Care, philosophy, PTSD, Religion, star trek, Tour in Iraq
One Small Step for Man…One Giant Step for Mankind
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the stuff that dreams are made of the stuff that inspires a generation. A tiny and fragile Lunar Module, the Eagle piloted by Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Bud Aldrin landed on … Continue reading
Filed under History, leadership, philosophy, Politics
Sometimes between Life and Death a Baseball often Matters as much as a Prayer
I have had a number of patients in my ICUs who have been avid baseball fans. Likewise there are a number of physicians and nurses who are avid fans of the game, or sometimes certain teams. Like me they were … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, christian life, faith, film, movies, Pastoral Care, philosophy, Religion
A Church of Love: Reflections on the celebration of my 15th Anniversary of Ordination
Christmas in Iraq 2007 It is hard to believe that I am a Priest and that I have been one now for the past 15 years. I held ordination in a two different Evangelical churches dating back to 1989 and … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Pastoral Care, philosophy, PTSD, Religion
Thoughts on Smoke, Suicides, Gracie Jane, the Media Legal System and I guess I’m not Patriotic
Gracie Jane…the Boston Legal Nancy Grace Today was one of those weird days. I got up relatively early for a day off only to have my morning interrupted by a page from the Emergency Room to deal with a suicide. … Continue reading
Filed under ER's and Trauma, faith, leadership, Lies of World Net Daily, Military, Pastoral Care, philosophy, Politics, PTSD, purely humorous
The Long and Winding Road: My Journey to Life
“Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one’s own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.” Henri Nouwen … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Pastoral Care, philosophy, Religion
