Weekly Devotionals and Blogs
Help from Startling Places
As many of you read in the last blog posted here, Keith died on January 22, 2012, three months after we learned of his stage 4, very advanced, bile duct cancer. As July 22 looms ahead of me, arriving on the same day of the week (Sunday) as the day he died, I feel...
Keith Goes Home
Dear Friends, I'm writing to inform you that Keith went to be with Jesus yesterday, Sunday January 22nd 2012, at 3:00 pm. Keith's last few weeks here on earth were peaceful. He was visited by many friends and relatives whom he was always pleased to see. Andrea was...
The Worst of Times and the Best of Times
New Years Day My pitiful little self-centered mind is about half taken up with what my uncle called “the big C” (or malignant cancer) which is (though I have only seen evidence of it) pretty well eating away on my vital organs as you read this. When I say it is the...
Christmas Eve
Keith has written several blogs recently. Due to a week of confusion they are just now ready to post. We apologize for the time lag. December 24, 2011 This morning our friend Trice took me to a meeting of a group of men. These men have had such an enormous positive...
I Love You, Daddy
This post is really different for me to write. It is about the process of making the transition from a life of faith in the God Jesus called, "Father," to the end of that life in the process we call "dying”. As I am writing this draft, Andrea and I are now in the...
Gratitude and Grief
After several days of medical procedures and tests we were told last Thursday (October 20th) by my Gastroenterologist that the internal blockage that has caused recent discomfort is the result of the bile duct being squeezed shut because of a tumor pressing against...
Finding a New Personality? Or Uncovering the One That Got Buried?
I’m a Christian and am also newly in a recovery program. But I’m confused about some of the terminology of the spiritual life that seems to me to be more similar to the faith I found before recovery than I had thought, but still different. My question is: In the...
A Message from the Past
How do you deal with sad things like missed opportunities or things you regret in your past? I have some incidents from twenty years ago that periodically come up in my dreams. I wake up filled with sadness, but since we can’t undo what happened in the past, how do...
What Does It Take to Begin?
Dear Keith, I don’t know what the matter with me is. I have a good job and a caring family, but inside my head when I’m alone I seem to have some sort of secretive and self-defeating mental/emotional disease. I find myself drinking and eating too much, and...
