Mortality as Medicine VOICES Series
March 12: Cynthia Terry
Musings on Mortality with a Hospice Chaplain
Have you noticed when a special trip or experience is about to end, each step along the way seems to be more precious? Imagine taking that consciousness into every day. Once we accept that our time on earth is finite, we are more likely to engage what is truly important now. This is the “medicine of mortality.”
Please join us for the Wednesdays of Lent at 7:00 p.m. as we learn from a dynamic line-up of speakers—a poet, a minister, a doctor, and more—each telling their meaningful story and inviting us to find more meaning in ours.
The Rev. Cynthia Terry has been a chaplain for all of her ordained career–30 years in higher education and currently with home hospice. Both settings have immersed her in grief, existential questions regarding life and death, as well as the joys and mundanity of life. Cynthia is ordained in the United Church of Christ, was raised in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and has attended various Episcopal churches with her wife and sons for many years.
VOICES invites contemporary voices to challenge and inform us: artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders, advocates of change courageous enough to hold the loveliness and sorrow of the world at once and find the wonder in both.
