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“God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.”
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
“Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, And before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? . . . Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!2 Bonhoeffer’s question “Who am I?”
― Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
― Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
“We continually move backward and forward in time as we use our stories to describe who we were, who we are, and what we hope we will become. Storytelling”
― Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
― Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
“who we are is not the sum of our neurological configurations.”
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
“As I watched people with advanced dementia sing and worship, I could not help but be caught up in the deep mystery of what it might mean to worship Jesus when you have forgotten who he is. Holding the hand of someone with advanced dementia and coming to realize that they are not someone who “used to be,” but someone who is important in the present and indeed has a vocation that will lead them into the future was, to say the least, humbling, challenging, and quite beautiful.”
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
“This book will make an attempt to displace the centrality of the brain as the essence of our humanness and replace it with the centrality of Jesus. We are not our brains! Brains may be a necessary aspect of being human, but they are certainly not sufficient. Damage to the brain is not damage to our humanness. Quite the opposite.”
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
― Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
