Crossroads of Despair and Hope

Crossroads of Despair and Hope

Chaplain Lynne writes: Our Chaplain role is to nudge people who are in despair… ever so gently, towards hope. With your deep well of peace, gentleness, love, attention, empathy and compassion, you gently turn people to hope. Your hope filled service, of quiet...
Spirituality and Hope

Spirituality and Hope

Chaplain Lynne writes: Hope and Spirituality are linked to Trauma Recovery. Spirituality has a deep healing impact on the recovery of individuals experiencing a traumatic event. Healing fundamentally centers around the spiritual impact of hope. Recent studies have...
Here I am

Here I am

Chaplain Lynne writes: Here I am, Send Me As I stepped into the room to which I had been sent, I immediately felt the rawness of the emotion.  Two nurses stood to the left of the bed, huddled together, whispering to each other as they cleared the counter of used...
Woman in the crowd…

Woman in the crowd…

Chaplain Lynne writes: There is a story in the Bible that reflects a woman with what may have been unrecognized grief and trauma. We don’t even know her name, … All we know is she had been bleeding for twelve years and that all of her money had been spent on...
The Love of the Father

The Love of the Father

Chaplain Kevin writes: As a crisis Chaplain, I share time and space with people whom are in the midst of a crisis. Many times, the crisis is the unexpected loss of a loved one. Seriously, what do you tell a mother or a father who just lost their teenager to murder,...