Category Archives: Chaplain’s Thoughts

There is a difference. I have heard the stories about other facilities. No, I don’t gossip (that often), I just listen “very carefully” to what floats around in the air. And what I hear is that Signature facilies have an … Continue reading →

A National Day of Prayer True Story. I have to tell this story. If I don’t, I will pop open and Snickers Bars and Slim Jims will fly everywhere. So, at today’s Bible study a resident rolls in and says, … Continue reading →

How does one get hurt and disappointment disentangled from the net of the heart? I don’t know, but today I will try. Here is my plan. First, I may to pray a real, uncensored prayer. Next, I might even talk … Continue reading →

Our Admissions coordinator was giving a family tour to a couple recently. Mr. B. was touring to move his sister closer to home. His sister is in the facility in Rockwood, and had also been in our Pigeon Forge facility. I … Continue reading →

We have two natures as Christians. One is serious; the other is carefree and fun. They are both of God. I pray and I dance. I notice the quirky in life and I pour my heart out to God in … Continue reading →

My life is a circle. Sometimes I laugh, but then I am sad, but then I laugh again. Sometimes I am too religious, and then I am not, and then I am again. Once and a while I am harsh, … Continue reading →

Activities Directors and Chaplains go together like Starbucks and coffee, Barak and Michelle, and Bar-b-q and napkins. We are a team. We do the same kind of work in that we bring joy to the soul and in turn we … Continue reading →

Warning! Do not limit the voice of God. It is everywhere. So I am driving to work this morning and fuming over a certain someone at work who had really frosted my English muffin. I set my mind to work … Continue reading →

Ms. Thelma, who is over 95 years old, invited me into her room today to talk with her and to pray with her. She began to reminisce about when she was a young teenage girl working in the tobacco fields, … Continue reading →

As you know, we are studying though the Bible in eight years with our residents. (Job Security!) Right now we are wandering through the desert of Deuteronomy. It’s not Hemingway. I rarely think about the study before we do it … Continue reading →