trauma

Reflections from Book of Job, one of the wisdom texts we’re studying together

We must cultivate our garden. — Voltaire, Candide The most famous line in Voltaire’s ”Candide” is the final one: ”We must cultivate our garden.” That is Candide’s response to the philosopher Pangloss, who tries again and again to prove that we live in the best of all possible worlds, no matter what disasters befall us. […]

Acknowledging the challenges of these times: responding to loss & trauma

Your hearts are troubled,and it is no sacrilege to let them be so …— Maren Tirabassi I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow.Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.― C.S. Lewis Your name is upon my tongueyour image is in my sightyour memory is in my […]

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