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Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Death: The Beginning of Life

Disclosure: This post contains some affiliate links (at no cost to you). This article is dedicated in particular to Susan Niebur, four-time cancer survivor and presently in hospice contemplating her journey beyond death, and to others who approach death . . . ultimately, all of us. “During the fiercest period of her chemotherapy, my friend […]

Filed Under: Death, Faith, Poetry Tagged: afterlife, cancer, death, Death the Beginning of Life, faith, journey beyond death, poetry, St. John of the Cross, Susan Niebur, T. S. Eliot, The Dark Night of the Soul, The Four Quartets

January 26, 2012

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Poetry as Soul Food

“Poetry has meant a great deal in my life. That sensitivity, that intuition, an attitude of tenderness before nature, before all things, before people, before pain, before weakness, before pettiness, at times and under circumstances of exultation also. I therefore believe that poetry has been for me much more than a hobby. It has been […]

Filed Under: Faith, Poetry, Writing Tagged: Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga, Christian Mystics, faith, poetry, soul food, writing

January 19, 2012

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Throw Yourself like Seed

Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit; sluggish you will not see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant. Now you are only giving food to that final pain which is slowly winding you […]

Filed Under: Faith, Poetry, Writing Tagged: ;The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, poetry, throw yourself like seed, Unamuno, vocation, writing

December 8, 2011

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Commitment Brings Grace

Until One Is Committed “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Writing Tagged: ;The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, commitment, Goethe, poetry, Providence, writing

October 27, 2011
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