Wednesday as I drove home from a morning trip I heard a snippet on public radio about the book “What She Ate”, by Laura Shapiro. https://www.amazon.com/What-She-Ate-Remarkable-Stories/dp/B073FZK55Y The book description offers this: ” A beloved...
Our house sits in the midst of a neighborhood with heavy oak cover. It faces east and backs up to Deerpoint Lake to the west. I cannot see the sunrise for all the trees to the east of us and towering over our front yard. But this morning as I left the house about...
Some topics just keep coming back around in recovery ministry…..issues of shame and how to help people move from shame to godly sorrow so that they can be healed. Two years ago, July 25, 2015 on a morning news show there was a story about a father who had exercised...
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” Kahlil Gibran Truth can be found in lots of places because truth is truth. I have become convinced that depression and anxiety are flip sides of the same...
“Loneliness is not a function of being alone, but rather, a function of how socially connected you are to those around you.” Grace Kim, Architect Kim designs “co-housing”, where families live in close community and share a common area for...
I have been pondering again…… 7/19/17 I think I have discovered a spiritual gift that will not exist in heaven! And it is one that has been given to me….in...
I had written on Facebook about praying on Monday this past week about the two women at Titus 2 and reminding God that he had promised to bring women to us for help. Truth be told, as I prayed about the 2 women at Titus I wondered at the decreased number of...
I have been watching the Charlie Gard drama from across the Atlantic Ocean with a heart that aches. Little Charlie has been given up on by the “system”, though his parents desperately yearn to continue the fight for his life and, believing that there is a medical...
