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...
One of the issues we revisit regularly in recovery and discipling is the matter of suffering- why it is present, how we face it, consecrating it to God for His redemptive work through it, etc. Recently, I was struck with the fact that, in the New Jerusalem, the...
Having referenced the difference between Woundedness and Brokenness in a previous post on Loneliness and Aloneness, I suppose I should explain the difference for those who do not know. Here is something I came across nearly 20 years ago that helped me understand the...
