Kay Lynn Northcutt
Kay Lynn Northcutt, author of Kindling Desire for God: Preaching as Spiritual Direction (Fortress), is adjunct professor of preaching and evangelization for long-distance learning at the Aquinas Institute of Theology.
“The coffee is much better now that we attend a Lutheran church,” I told my husband, wailing.
I'm immunocompromised. My ability to attend worship has long been determined by the CDC.
Chronic illness is like Walden: life is pared down to essentials. But unlike Thoreau, I can’t walk away.
Our teacher cautions us that the corpse pose is the most difficult of all yoga postures to master, but after an hour’s exertion in warrior pose, downward-facing dog and cobra, the prospect of relaxing horizontally on one’s yoga mat brings both relief and the impertinent question, “How hard can it be?” Fascinated, I report to my husband, “Every day at the conclusion of yoga class we practice dying.” “That’s interesting,” he says, trying to share my enthusiasm. “It’s kind of like Lent,” I venture. "Lent is when we’re supposed to practice dying, right?”