: About Me

I am a certified candidate for ordination as Deacon in the United Methodist Church. I currently serve as Director of Pastoral Care and Older Adult Ministry at Avondale United Methodist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. I am also a Family Caregiving Consultant with a website, Feedinmama.com that has information, resources and encouragement for older adults and caregivers. I blog about those topics at Feedinmama.blogspot.com and about positive living at Merryspirit.blogspot.com. I previously coordinated a large older adult membership program at a local hospital. I have a BS in Health and an MA in Ministry and Leadership.

Religion & Spirituality > Christian Doctrine & Issues God's completed work for mankind

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It was a most unusual cross, a wooden cross, maybe two feet tall and it had pieces of broken mirror attached all over the front like a mosaic. Definitely not your ordinary cross you would expect to find in church, but not so out of place in the chapel of a distant satellite seminary campus housed in a converted medical building. I should have been paying more attention to whatever it was that was happening in class at the time but I couldn't stop looking at the cross. Then all of a sudden I had one of those "Oh wow!" moments. I thought, what a perfect metaphor that is for life, for my life...

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