Unless you’re a Tibetan monk, surrounded by nothing but other peaceful Tibetan monks, chances are you run into people and events that make you just plain angry sometimes. And that’s okay. Anger is a very common human emotion, and in many instances, it can serve...
Stress is a topic on everyone’s mind. It has been for a while, but it’s even more so now it seems. If you have children in school, you might be stressing over them masking, or not masking, or whether you’ll have to figure out how...
New beginnings come in all shapes and sizes. They come with varied circumstances and causes. Some of them we anticipate with a sense of excitement and possibility, and some arrive with difficulties and pain we never see coming. Not all new beginnings are ones that...
How do you end that sentence? The tough get going! Go shopping! There might be a few other jokes or memes running through your head with that. What do YOU do when the going gets tough? We need to think about it. I was recently...
It’s been a while since I’ve written. Life was busy handing me some challenges that seemed to take up my time and energy. I really liked what Susan wrote in the last blog about new beginnings and intentionality in our living. She shared some of...
August is back to school, for kids, for young adults off to college, and for some parents who always look forward to the end of summer and a more regular routine. This August was also supposed to be back to normal, letting kids go to...
What comes to mind when you hear the word empowerment? Is it feeling strong or a sense of taking up space, or having the resources to get a job done? Is it having permission to do something, say something, be something? Many of us may...
I have the pleasure and honor of preaching at a local church this Sunday. The Scripture reading is two stories in one, about a father with a deathly ill daughter and an older woman with a seemingly incurable ailment that had ruined her life. (This...