Linda Clark-Borre

Thank you for stopping in! I’m a Fire and Emergency Services Chaplain in a 55-square-mile district in Illinois. I also volunteer with the Willow House Organization, which supports grieving children and families. My interest in maintaining faith during devastating personal experiences has been part of my world since childhood. That’s another story told elsewhere. For now, I’ll share my spiritual path, beginning in my mid-twenties.

As a young mother, I was a foster mom to children with multiple disabilities. Each taught me advanced lessons about courage, love, power, and how much we benefit from the simple will to learn. Even when our bodies are tired, and our progress seems slow, we can move forward in time, somehow, someway. During those years, under the tutelage of nurses who truly cared for the charges we shared, I learned what was controllable and what wasn’t, and how to survive predicaments of mind, body, and spirit. In short, I learned to anchor myself in a faith willing to stretch and grow to accommodate everything - even inevitable death.

From my early thirties forward, I became an executive in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. I worked directly with many patients, including children and adults with organ transplants, cancer, and other diseases. I switched gears in my early fifties to teach in the College of Business at California State University, Chico. There, I taught ethics, management studies, and complex project management. Together, my students and I suffered and worked through the effects of the terrible Paradise, CA, Camp Fire of 2018. This was my first hands-on experience in true disaster management.

And all this while, since my early years, I kept studying matters related to fate, destiny, faith, and survival on a global scale. This has always been my passion. Which lands me here.

I'm educated and certified in theology, faith, comparative religion, and global wisdom traditions. I earned a Master’s degree at the University of Chicago, where my focus was on Grief, Mourning & Meaning. Eight hundred supervised hours as a Clinical Pastoral Intern in Level I and II hospitals further honed and broadened my understanding regarding the more difficult moments of a lifetime. The solace we have is that we are never as alone as we may feel ourselves to be. Truly, we all suffer; but we are not completely alone.

Anyone can contact me at shchaplains@gmail.com, which I administer as a volunteer. 

I wish you wellness and peace!