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Tag: Denial

  • We’ll do anything to appear normal

    It’s called homeostasis and describes the process of living organisms to balance their physical and chemical environments to maintain life. It is homeostasis that maintains the hydration of the cells in our bodies, our blood pressure and even the rate at which we perspire. The concept was described by French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1865…

  • “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Mark 9:30-37 Ordinary 25B

    “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Mark 9:30-37 Ordinary 25B

    Mark 9:30-37 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But…

  • The Art of Dying Well, with Jesus

    Recently there has been some significant deconstruction of the grief cycle as postulated and engraved into our psyches in the last twenty years by the work of thanatologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. So it is incumbent on me before I reference these “stages” for the work of Holy Week that I acknowledge the challenges that have been…