Thinking Out Loud

ONHL Hospice Chaplain Drumright, Oklahoma When we are mourning a loss, often the last thing we feel like doing is laughing, but laughing can help! When did you last have a good laugh? How long has it been?

Thinking Out Loud

The Frustration of Not Knowing What To Write or Say!Someone close to you is trying to cope with a death in the family. Your pen is poised to write a warm personal note inside a carefully chosen sympathy card. But your brain freezes. Your mind is more sterile than a modern day operating room.

What Happens When You Die?

Faithful people under the Old Law were “wandering in deserts, on mountains, and sheltering in caves and holes in the ground…They gained approval through their faith, and did not receive what was promised, because God had provided something better for us…” (Hebrews 11: 38-40).

Thinking Out Loud

Refuge Care Hospice Chaplain When we feel a loss, we experience an array of emotions. Some of these emotions can be extremely debilitating and confusing. Let us face the honest truth: embarking on the grieving process is not easy, and it certainly is not fun.

What About Heaven?

Those under the Old Law were “wandering in deserts, on mountains, and sheltering in caves and holes in the ground… They gained approval through their faith, and did not receive what was promised, because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect”...

Family Discussions

There was a pet store that had all kinds of animals for sale. There were fish, dogs, cats, ferrets, lizards and birds. Mr Grant was the owner of the pet store. He was a kind man.

Thinking Out Loud

When I was growing up in Church, I was taught that I shouldn't 'dance, drink, curse or go with girls who do!' But in adulthood one of the most important lessons we learn in life is ‘life's a dance'. Sometimes we lead, and sometimes we follow.

Which Faith Is Right?

What causes Christian diversity? Its cause is Biblical illiteracy. Church-goers don’t know the Bible.“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…Since you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you…” (Hosea 4:6).

Thinking Out Loud

When we are mourning a loss, often the last thing we feel like doing is laughing, but laughing can help! When did you last have a good laugh? How long has it been? Laughter breaks the grip of sadness that tries to hold fast to our lives siphoning all joy and happiness right out of it!

Scattergun Your Anger And Regret It”

Oh yeah, Brenna was furious! No doubt about that. Absolutely amazing how the very air around her sizzled, and at the same time, made every nearby feel like they had just stepped into a sub-Arctic meat freezer. The words blazing from her firepit-mouth could strip a rhino down to his thin underskin.