Becoming Peculiar — Adventures in a Backwards Kingdom

Jesus is Not My Personal Saviour

February 5, 2015 by Kathleen Quiring 12 Comments

I wrote recently that I believe community will save the world. And I keep coming back to that. I’m believing less and less in personal salvation. Because if I am experiencing salvation, it’s through community. I’m only getting there because of you guys. If left to my own devices, my own will, I know I […]

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What I’m Into: January 2015

January 30, 2015 by Kathleen Quiring 13 Comments

Sitting in Felix’s hospital room for the last eight weeks, I’ve had plenty of time to consume media. Since our internet access is limited, we’ve had to resort more to books and DVD’s, which is all good. Books Let’s Pretend This Never Happened – Jenny Lawson. This book is hilarious. I found myself laughing out […]

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A Good Week

January 28, 2015 by Kathleen Quiring 17 Comments

Felix has been doing pretty dang good this week. All of his test results and the numbers on his monitors have been positive. CMV counts are down, lymphocyte counts are up, his temperature is down, his oxygen saturation is up, his heart rate and breathing are down, etc. But more importantly, he’s looking and behaving […]

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Conversations about (Felix’s) Life and Death

January 22, 2015 by Kathleen Quiring 19 Comments

Last week was a rough one. Felix developed a fever one night, which always gets the pediatric team scrambling. He underwent a series of tests (AGAIN) until it was discovered that Felix has CMV (cytomegalovirus). CMV is an incredibly common and widespread type of herpes virus that almost all of us have in our bodies […]

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Q: When is it Appropriate to Share Your Faith?

January 21, 2015 by Kathleen Quiring 7 Comments

A: When they ask. The other day I experienced THE WORST, most inappropriate example of proselytizing I have ever witnessed. (Evangelical pun not intended.) I was sitting in a hospital waiting room, weeping over some bad news about my ill infant son, when someone I love decided to bring up the long and narrow path […]

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