Easy Answers? Coping with Loss and the Questions That Remain

Easy Answers? Coping with Loss and the Questions That Remain

  Grief, Anger, and Unanswered Questions: Walking Through the Pain of Loss It’s been two weeks since my world was turned upside down.  Two weeks since I lost my adult daughter, quite unexpectedly.  The pain of that loss has been relentless.  My emotions have been...
Grief And Loss: In The Midst Of It

Grief And Loss: In The Midst Of It

In The Midst Of Grief I’m writing this now, while still in the depths of grief, to share what it feels like to lose a child.  By “now,” I mean while the pain is still fresh—before time has dulled the edges, before I can look back and reflect on how grief...
God’s Grace Of Recovery

God’s Grace Of Recovery

“The once powerful mental obsession to use has diminished greatly, or perhaps, as one person in recovery expressed: “To use is no longer in my emotional vocabulary.”                                                                          ...
Embracing Faith Struggles

Embracing Faith Struggles

“Finding Comfort in the Storms of Doubt: How Struggles Shape Our Faith”   Have you ever felt like you’re in a rough patch in your relationship with God, as if there’s something holding you back that you can’t seem to get past?  Perhaps you’ve...
Declawing The Lion

Declawing The Lion

One of the first Bible verses I learned after becoming a Christian at sixty-five was 1 Peter 5:8: “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” Back then, I didn’t fully get...