In the past week alone, I found myself in three different conversations with colleagues who are walking alongside aging parents in their late 80s and early 90s. Each one expressed a similar worry: their parent seems deeply lonely. These older adults are living with the natural physical changes that come with aging, but those physical challenges are intertwined with emotional and spiritual ones as well. Grief is present in each of their stories. One parent is grieving the loss of a longtime..
In the past week alone, I found myself in three different conversations with colleagues who are walking alongside aging parents in their late 80s and early 90s. Each one..
I had never had a cat, but I have had many dogs. By my count, I have had 7 dogs in my adulthood and 3 dogs as a child. I have also had one bird and three guinea pigs but..
I often say that I don’t know how people live without faith—without Jesus, or without hope. And I mean that because hope is central to nearly everything in my life...
A new year provides an opportunity for a renewed focus on spiritual practices. New Year resolutions have never attracted my attention. Maybe this is because when we make..
There are moments in life that stay lit inside us—quiet embers that continue to glow long after we expect them to fade. One of those moments for me began not in a..
by: Tiffany Affolter, UCH Management, Director of Business Development
In Fall 2020, my Uncle Bob shipped his Lortone rock tumbler to me, along with a bunch of rocks he had collected over the course of many years. He knew my son was a..
Time speaks and we try to listen, not always knowing that God speaks through the medium of sudden and unexpected ideas. Time disappears and we grow impatient. Time goes..
