Bishop V. Gene Robinson's opening prayer at the "We Are One" celebration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWWAnitUCw4

In an earlier post, I wrote about praying for a woman whose family wants her to get better while she herself wants to be at peace:

And here I sit with a theology that says I can’t really request that God make anything happen.

A commenter on my WordPress Blog asked if I could say more about that, or if I’ve written about it in the past. I’m sure I ( Read more... )

As I predicted, my sweet old lady in the nursing home is still living, and more miserable than ever, although she’s wonderfully lucid and frank and quite funny (Well, I don’t care what the nurse’s name is, I’m just telling you he was good-looking. And *he’s* the one who did my bath todayI went to visit her yesterday morning, fresh off my vacation. ( Read more... )

I've only watched a few people pass away, but it's always hard and not in the ways I expected. ( Cut for those who don't want to read )