Tag: good friday

  • Pediatrician to Parent to the Passion

    I stopped and put my fork down on the plate.  There was still food on it, but an emotional force had interrupted my appetite.  My wife and I had been sitting at the dining table, chatting idly about preparations for our child, now nearly 34 weeks old and still in the womb. 34 weeks.  In the mere act…

  • Can You Drink the Cup?

    Can You Drink the Cup?

    She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” October 2005 found me bewildered, tearful, and dyspneic in a hospital bed.…