"Passout," "Blackout," "Space Monkey," "Space Cowboy," "Knockout," "Gasp," "Rising Sun." These are all alternative names for the choking game, which is no game. Kevin Tork, a 15 year student from a loving, intact family, died a month ago from self-strangulation. Not a suicide, it was an attempt to feel good that went fatally bad. Dr. …
Category Archives: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Dead End?
Jerry and I love to roam back roads, looking for herons and other wildlife, enjoying God's creation. Sometimes, though, we'd get to the end of a little gravel road, at a creek or the end of a county. Even though there'd been no sign to warn us, we'd run right into a dead end. When …
The Canopy Awaits
As the funeral procession turned the corner, across the early spring field, I saw the blue canopy. Drawing nearer the little cemetery among the farms, I though about my own journey to that waiting canopy. When God calls me home, will I have done all his will? I particularly thought about how I’d feel if …