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Hope, Faith and Basic Trust -- Part 2.
As Life would have it, since posting last time I stumbled upon Stephen Jenkinson’s writings about hope, in his wonderful book, Die Wise. With characteristic and refreshing clarity, he writes: Hope is a mortgage. It is not like a mortgage. It is a mortgage. Hope is a mortgaging of the present, for the sake of some possible future that might come to pass and just as likely might not. (p.132) Photo: David Zawita So how is faith different from hope? The etymological foundati
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Aug 2, 20253 min read
The Myth of Grief 'Recovery'
Yes - I am aware of the “grief recovery method”. This post is not a critique of that program but rather an exploration of the idea that...
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Mar 30, 20253 min read
Growing Around Grief
This post is the essence of an interactive session I provided for the lovely people at the St. Albert Bereavement Fellowship, on Tuesday 9th April, 2024. In 1996, a Dr. Lois Tonkin – a grief counsellor, educator and writer from New Zealand, who died in 2019 – published an article in which she told the story of being in a workshop with a mother whose child had died some years before. The woman had made a series of drawings to show the difference between how she’d imagined her
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Apr 13, 20244 min read