Aug 7, 2018 | Soul & Self Stewardship, Spiritual Health & Recovery |
When a prolonged season of extreme stress overtook me, I collapsed. I could no longer do what had been done before. With my brain muddied-up and fuzzy all the time, an inner drive took over. Move towards healing or move aside and let life deal with you. I chose to... 
Aug 8, 2017 | Growth for Life |
We spent last week in Washington state pursuing a kind of change many of us don’t talk about much. At least, not in the faith circles I’m familiar with. Generally, when it comes to dealing with loss, trauma, and hard circumstances, we talk a lot about... 
Jul 25, 2017 | Growth for Life |
The other day I set out to do something I thought was pretty cool. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. But, sometimes what I set out to do doesn’t turn out quite the way I think it will. I was reminded of a story I’d read many times before. Since I thought it might be... ![How to Stop the Never Ending Game of Approval]()
Jul 17, 2017 | Growth for Life |
Approval. An overused word with a haunting impact for many. For people-pleasers like me, it’s a way of life. The approval way of living becomes a crushing weight of dying. Thankfully, with Christ, death precedes life. There is hope. Sometimes, we know deep... 
Mar 16, 2017 | Spiritual Health & Recovery |
My emotions went sky high. An event triggered pain in an area where I continue to need healing. I don’t expect to live in a perfectly calm and emotional state in every moment, but there are times when it’s clear emotions take over on a regular basis. When they do, cue... 
Oct 29, 2015 | Growth for Life |
Maybe it’s hard to hear, tough to read and unpleasant to think about. Those stories of trials which one endures. Like the friend who deals with chronic illness, still. Or the one who deals with anxiety & depression and can’t seem to move past it. And the ones who...
