Stories of HOPE &
Nuggets of Truth

Finding Freedom in Truth I’ve heard that the first step to recovery is admitting there is a problem! Yes, this is true but the process of taking responsibility is often hard. The road is filled with potholes that want to swallow us! I understand this process only too well. I told myself during the years of my son’s drug abuse – “It’s the psychologist’s fault.” “It’s his friends fault,” and,

Trust the Process "And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hands, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do." Jeremiah 18:4 That's what the potter does. We are spoiled clumps of clay that are molded by his gentle, strong, deliberate, and creative hands into a new creation. And he does it as he sees fit. We

Casting Your Cares Vs Carrying Them Living in the center of trauma brought days of sadness and deep pain in my life. Those who walked the journey with me witnessed the toll of balancing hope and hopelessness as residual bombs exploded. It was in that setting I had a new coworker speak into my life. He came in towards the end of the day and said he felt the Lord

Perspective Changes Everything I recently picked up a study I started several years ago but never finished called “Changed Into His Image” by Jim Berg. Stumbling across this book was not simply a reminder of my bad habit of starting and not finishing books, but rather a timely message I needed to hear. In one of the chapters Mr. Berg, using the example of being stuck in a traffic bottle-neck,

Learning from the Past; Building Health for the Future Age has a way of blurring your vision. You need longer arms for the fine print and regulated “daytime hours” for the road. We laugh at “cheater glasses” that have become wardrobe and scramble for one of 20 pairs when it’s time to read the medicine bottle.  We can see an eye doctor and seek eye health, but often there is

Keeping God’s Word Close The other day I was putting a new license plate on my car. I had picked the most freezing day of winter and was on a mission to complete it in record time. Running into the garage I grabbed the first screwdriver I found and ran back out into the tundra to make a quick finish of the task. However, as I leaned over to remove

Sharing the Treasure of God's Word “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.” 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 In the midst of trauma, your world turns upside down; you feel broken in a million pieces and steady footing seems impossible. The pain and sorrow of brokenness and loss leaves you in a place of