Posts Tagged ‘forgiveness|quest-magazine-2011-09’

I still use the copy of The Joy of Cooking I got for Christmas in 1969. This now-fragile cookbook has memories stained into many of its pages (especially the peanut-butter cookie page).

It was the third summer of my seminary training, and I was completing the required “Clinical Pastoral Education” by serving as a student chaplain in a women’s prison near Tacoma, Washington.

The stories we tell of heaven and hell are not about how we die, but about how we live.

I have mentioned my garden in past columns—how much joy and life I find there and how central to my spiritual practice it is from spring through fall.

Everyone I have lost… in the closing of a door… the click of the lock…