Being Grace in a Shaming Culture

Being Grace in a Shaming Culture

Shaming has no healing or restorative purpose.  Shaming invokes humiliation and embarrassment.  It deceives the “shamer” into believing they are better than those being shamed. It comes cloaked in “needed criticism” or religiosity.  Whether it was the...
Beautiful Design: Creation of Man and Woman

Beautiful Design: Creation of Man and Woman

Since we live in a world with a confusing sense of who we are as men and women, I decided to go to the source, the original blueprint of creation, Genesis.  What an eye-opener to ponder Genesis from this viewpoint! Trying to fully grasp Genesis is a challenge with our...
Remember the Promise

Remember the Promise

Where do you go when your world doesn’t make sense? Lately my world doesn’t make any sense. After surviving 2014 (see post on the Unexpected) I could not imagine another “unexpected” crashing into my family like a train on January 24th. My sweet precious 10-year-old...
Five Ways to Fight Loneliness

Five Ways to Fight Loneliness

“Another day another night inside a lonely world”…lyrics I don’t want to live by. Isn’t it amazing that we live on a planet with 7.4 billion people, yet, there is an epidemic of loneliness? One author even described it as “crowded loneliness.” Loneliness isn’t...