Monday 2:45am

You’ve started to come out of sedation a little bit today and our family is glad to see you open your eyes but when we can hardly look past the expressions of pain in your eyes and on your face. I imagine you’re probably frustrated to be in so much pain, unable to articulate your [...]

Posted at 8:45 am on March 2, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: To Julie | read on

Tuesday 3:29am

Your nurse, Jo, asked me to describe you to her. I think to myself that you have an untamable will inside of you and no consequence seems able to detour your action from the desires of your heart. God is the author of life and created your will as well as the tenacity inside you [...]

Posted at 4:53 am on February 26, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: To Julie | read on

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There is a book by Brennan Manning called the Ragamuffin Gospel. The fourth chapter of his book is entitled tilted halos.

We wear a tilted halo when we turn from the mistrust of our legalistic religion to the unconditional love and acceptance of Jesus Christ. We wear our tilted halos when we acknowledge our poverty of spirit, our powerlessness and helplessness as paupers at the door of God’s mercy who lay hold of our nothingness before God, unable to redeem any part of ourselves by good works or scrupulous observance of the law. And lastly we wear our tilted halos when we live in transparent honesty before ourselves, others, and God.

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