Confession time. I understand rest conceptually, but as a practical matter, it escapes me. Does that make me a workaholic? It's not that I work all the time: it's just that when it comes time to rest, I'm no good, as if I've wandered into a task I lack the basic skills for. There are …
Near Death Experience
No, I haven't had one, but a good friend of mine used to work with a doctor that did a tremendous amount of research into NDE's of children, and the books he wrote based on many interviews with these kids are fascinating. Dr. Mevin Morse's web site outlines his work, and though it's been years …
Three Days In…
It's Wednesday, the first midweek of Easter season. Frankly, thoughts of Easter have long flown the coop from most U.S. Christians, nothing more than memories now of Easter egg hunts and cellophane covered baskets and perhaps a new dress and shoes. We lay our heads down last night without thinking much of Death's new status …
Bright Monday
Lent is a season, Easter a day--or so I thought. But the fact that the church has traditionally celebrated Easter as a season is impressing itself on me, and this year, I'm paying attention all the way to Pentecost, fifty days from now. (Forty days will land us at Ascension Day, the day marking the …
Easter Sunday
It's here. It's still dark outside, but it's here. This is the time I imagine it happening. The disciples still in bed, the women perhaps just now stirring in the dark, waking themselves, feeling again the weight of grief that greets each day after the loved one is gone. They gather up the spices, their …
JEFF BERRYMAN 