My Life
Every emergency room,
every jail, every cancer ward
and nursing home in four states,
a thousand weddings,
a thousand funerals,
wading in the water –
I did that too,
stood in the hospital hall
asking how the loved one
was going to die,
thousands of sermons,
thousands of bread-breakings,
a thousand prayers
to a heaven that seems to be deaf,
for forty years…
…forty years,
a million miles in a fast car,
knocking on doors,
sitting on uncomfortable furniture,
in clothes that don’t feel anything
like what you feel inside.
My life.
A Small Blue Marble 
Holy crap, man. For real? You should write a bio.
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Yes, absolutely for real. I’m an ordained Presbyterian minister who pastored 7 churches. As to the bio, I’ve tried writing long things but I get tired of them before they are finished.
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Write, Syd. Your experiences will enrich our lives.
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I was thinking about you last night and then I saw you had been to my blog.Thank you
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Thanks for thinking of me. I must have felt it.
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I was glad to see your name
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You have had a very demanding life.I think sometimes we get totally drained
when in roles like this.Where is God? He seems so far away.
Why do some of us get help and many don’t?
Even Jesus says, why has thou forsaken me?
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No line from the scriptures ever haunted me more. My life has been difficult at times, but it was the life I chose, and for the most part I succeeded in it, honorably retired and given a lovely party when I finally rode off into the sunset. I don’t complain. Stocking shelves at the supermarket would have been much harder.
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Yes, you did something of great value
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