Chaplain’s Corner

The holiday season often brings joy, celebration, and togetherness. However, for those dealing with the loss of a loved one, it can also amplify feelings of grief and loneliness. As a hospice chaplain, I have walked alongside many families during this challenging time, witnessing how the blend of remembrance and sorrow unfolds. Here are some reflections and suggestions on how to navigate grief during the holiday season. Acknowledge Your Feelings: The first step in dealing

To say that the entire world is suffering right now is not an understatement. Hundreds of thousands have been affected in various ways by the pandemic that has taken over life as we know it. The future will look different for some because of what is happening across the globe right now. That is the reality. Uncertainty, anxiety, and fear have the potential to overwhelm us every day, if we let them. Those are natural

Because grief is a human experience, no one is immune. It doesn’t respect people and can strike at any time. It’s not something any of us want to experience, but we’ll all have to endure it at some point in our lives. We experience grief when someone we love dies, when our dream doesn’t materialize, and when we move from one season to the next in our lives. And we often grieve when we look

The Chaplain team at High Desert Hospice would like to wish you Happy New Year.  We pray that 2021 will be a year filled with hope, blessing and great expectation! We pray that you take many opportunities to breathe deeply and enjoy the sunrise!

As we find ourselves in the midst of this unusual Advent season, I am reminded of a few things.  The four weeks of Advent are thematically focused around Hope, Peace, Love and Joy, with some variation depending on denominational tradition. These four words have never felt so important to me, or never more necessary for our society.  It seems that they are easily lost when we focus on the current circumstances impacting our world.  However,

Hopelessness plagues most of us at some point or another.  It isn’t reserved for a select few, especially given the days in which we’re now living.  So where do we go to find hope when our world is shrouded in darkness, despair and disillusionment?  I find that leaning on Scripture has helped me tremendously.   I’m also finding that there may some lesson(s) to be learned in this season. Hopelessness is often born out of difficulties,

Welcome to Chaplain’s Corner. As your Chaplain team, we are greatly delighted to serve you in any way we can. Periodically, we like to introduce you to some folks from the team. Today we would like to introduce you to one of our Chaplains, John Ambrose. Chaplain John Chaplain John Ambrose comes to High Desert Hospice with a varied background. A New York native, John left the Empire State in 1968 to enlist into the

On behalf of your High Desert Hospice Chaplain Team, I want to reach out and let you all know that we are praying for you in this chaotic season. Fear seems to be the order of the day, and it can be overwhelming to say the least. This contagion is threatening all of us, and is already affecting many of our personal lives. I’m not talking about COVID-19. I’m speaking of the fear that it

On behalf of your Chaplain Team, I want to welcome you to “Chaplain’s Corner”. We pray you all are well and finding the strength and encouragement necessary to sustain you in these unusual times. I was thinking about a story that I heard some time ago. There was a little boy that lived across the street from an older gentlemen whose wife had just passed away. The little boy decided to go visit the gentleman.