Seedbed’s JD Walt had posted a photo of a journal page entitled “If Scars Could Speak” on April 3,2023. It resonated with me because I’d had a “scar” surprise the night before. I went to see His Only Son on Sunday, April 2. I...
There was a time in my life, a day, a specific moment when I felt the rejecting and dismissive spirit from some who presumed to judge me without even knowing me. It was truly an experience that felt like an emotional ambush and in my mind I asked God, “What is...
The lie men tell little girls when they are grooming them and earning their trust and loyalty: “You didn’t do anything wrong.” And when an abusive controlling ‘boyfriend” turns his “girlfriend” into his pimped out asset and...
3/26/16 Chalked names on sidewalks….creating “pain” and “intimidation”. Students at one of the most elite universities in the South….looking for a reason to protest. Looks like they found it. From one news report: “Like...
The Wounded Healer- more Lenten thoughts stirred by Henri Nouwen from 3/9/2014 by CBB I read this some years ago at the recommendation of a friend, The Wounded Healer, by Henri Nouwen, was required reading again in the last year. This is a book that has been part of...
Adolescent reflection at age 17: “To say that one is wholly and undeniably happy is to lie. For how are we, such shallow beings, to determine those things which have gone to the utter depths of our souls and left them scarred with sorrow? Does not every...
