Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in a powerful experience that reminded me of a time when I experienced resurrection. Within the Dances of Universal Peace community there is a practice which centers around singing and dancing the Lord’s Prayer...
Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the day my world turned upside down and all the color drained out. It began with a phone call from my daughter – “Come quick! Mom can’t breathe!” A mad dash to the hospital. A hellish scene filled with doctors, nurses,...
2025 has been quite the year in the life of Roger Lynn. As you may remember from last year’s letter, I moved back to Spokane in October 2024, & spent the first three months wonderfully sheltered in the basement apartment of my friends’ beautiful log home out in...
There are people in my life who love me and care about me and value me – more of them than I might ever have imagined to be possible. And each of them in their own way is a remarkable gift. I am a different person, a better person, a person more fully myself,...
On this All Hallow’s Eve, when it is said that we are sometimes visited by the spirits of the departed, this photo popped up from twenty years ago. I find myself smiling at this reminder of my late wife and me dressed up in silly costumes on our way to a Halloween...
I was standing in the sanctuary yesterday just before the rehearsal for my daughter’s wedding started. I was having a little chat with her mother (I do that sometimes), and I said, “I wish you could be here.” And then she reminded me that she is. It was then that I...
This evening, on a whim, I picked up my book “Keeping My Feet Firmly Planted in the Flow: A Year of Journeying Through Grief & Gratitude” and read through the whole thing in one sitting. It was, as it always is, a remarkable experience. The first third of the...
Fifteen years ago today (March 7th), early on a Sunday morning, my beloved wife (Veronica) left her body behind and set off for new adventures on another plane of existence. In that moment, as I stood there hugging her two beautiful daughters, my world turned...
Tonight I caught a brief glimpse of something vast and expansive. It began with an actual, visual glimpse (in this case it was a lone star shining briefly through the clouds). But what unfolded before me (and, perhaps, within me) was far more than anything visual...