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Encounters Archive
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Encounters: Easter Morning
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsBy Jessica This Easter my family and I were visiting London, with the intention of doing tourist stuff and to evaluate our choice to move to England. We wanted to travel to the city that we were thinking of moving to so we could […] -
Encounters: Miraculous Timing
Posted on December 25, 2012 | No CommentsBy Karin I work as a nursing home and hospice physician. One day, while travelling to see patients on a 100-mile round trip route, I got a call from one of our nurses about a patient who had just arrived home from the hospital […] -
Encounters: Flat Tires
Posted on December 24, 2012 | 1 CommentMy tire blew as I crossed a bridge on the way to the St. Louis VA at 5:30 on a pitch-black winter morning. I had a cell phone this time, but no AAA and no one to call. -
Encounters: I Wish I Was Still Young
Posted on December 24, 2012 | 2 CommentsShe looked at me again and seemed almost surprised to find me there holding her hand. She thanked me for stopping to talk to her and turned to slowly push away. -
Encounters: How Great Thou Art
Posted on December 20, 2012 | 4 CommentsShe put her arm around my shoulder, gave me a sisterly hug, and was gone, without saying a word. -
Encounters: Collapsing Inside
Posted on December 17, 2012 | 4 CommentsDriving by the cemetery that day, I happened to look right and saw an older man with unkempt hair sitting on a bench outside a gravestone store across from the cemetery, his head in his hands, his shoulders heaving with sobs. And I zipped by at 65 mph. -
Encounters: The Power of Empathy
Posted on December 12, 2012 | 5 Comments"I found out that there is a point where you might as well be literally drowning in rising water, instead of disconnection bills. And when your kids are hungry, you get depressively creative. With everything of value either at a pawn shop or sold, I gathered up some of our many books and took my five-and-two-year-old to the other side of town. " -
Encounters: We Are All Beggars
Posted on December 10, 2012 | 3 CommentsWhen we see physical need in others, it is merely an external manifestation of an inner need we all carry. -
Encounters: I Passed By
Posted on December 5, 2012 | 1 CommentI was enjoying the beautiful evening as I crossed the Maeser quad, and I heard her before I saw her. I had to look around for the source of the wailing sobs, and finally I saw her through the late dusk, standing over near the entrance to the Brimhall building.