Finding Healing and Purpose in the Footsteps of Jesus  I love the concept of tiny houses although I don’t live in one. I want a simple life. However, I am constantly pulled in every direction and, on most days, you will find me running the proverbial marathon. I am forever sticking things in my shopping

Have you ever wanted to say just the right words to a person going through trauma? Of course, our friend or loved one needs encouragement, but like most help for others, timing is the key. We fall into the trap of believing that our words are the most important when actually, our loving arms of

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The Impossible, a movie about a family who survived a Tsunami, expresses the chaos of trauma. It showed how hopelessness drives into your heart, mind and soul; you can’t breathe or orient to normal anymore because it no longer exists. Sorrow overwhelms, pain penetrates and confusion plagues your mind with a sense of drowning.  All