Returning

I’ve been afraid to write. Reluctant. I still am. In part, it feels like I’m eulogizing my my husband which is scary. I want us to “grow old together on one pillow” as the little note from the hotel staff on our honeymoon said. I don’t want my husband to die. Bottom line.

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Take Heart

When Christ said…take heart, I have overcome the world. What did he mean? This is an important question to ask when we are faced with reports of another variant of the coronavirus virus in the Caribbean. Our fears are real and warranted. Our grief is real…

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Daily

Duwayne’s face glowed on that hospital bed. His skin was beautiful and swollen with fluids. I always loved his hands. They were perfect, even with chemo blackness on his knuckles…

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After Love

It’s been hard for me to express anything about my late husband—the love of my life who died when he was not supposed to. I believed and still believe I heard from the Lord on a plane to be with him after learning of his diagnosis…

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A Man's Voice

It is a painful, shameful and frightening reality that the beautiful country of Jamaica competes for first and second place in violence against women in the world. This article and others to follow include theological reflections on the treatment of women as a means of raising the volume on this urgent issue that in many respects finds roots in the corruption of Scripture.

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The Rest We Seek

“Ekhah!”

This is how the book of Lamentations begins. It’s a harrowing cry of grief to the Lord because of the destruction of Jerusalem and the desolation that followed. Imagine everything about your identity—every part—being stripped from you in this way. What do you say to your God who is the core of everything you are and hold dear?

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New Faith

There are times I think I am in control of certain life outcomes, but then I am shocked, shocked when disabused of any notion of power I thought I held…

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