Still Listening

Letters on loss, healing, and the mystery of being alive —
from deep in the woods.

Tag: judging

  • There is nothing wrong with me. I’m just different.

    “What is wrong with you?” It’s a question usually asked with exasperation when we just can’t understand another person, their behaviour, their attitude, or their beliefs. Asked of an adult the question is damaging enough, but when a parent uses the phrase as an expression of frustration a child grows up believing there is something…

  • What does he possibly see in her?

    Luke 7:36 – 8:3 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She…