She bursts through the garage door, throwing her bookbag in the hall whining, “My sister is stupid. And you never do anything for me.” The "s" word makes my insides recoil. My inner peace shatters in an instant, like glass crashing on the tile floor. What set her off … [Read more...]
Receiving God’s Love When You Can’t Measure Up
I rush in to start my shift in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. One of my patients is a school aged child whose name means Powerful and Mighty. Her chronic illness prevents her from walking, communicating and performing any of her basic needs. She is non-verbal, not ambulatory, … [Read more...]
How to Toss off Shame-An Exercise.
Shame can be subtle and suffocating. Often tiny hidden incidents become the bricks erecting towering walls of shame barricading us from freedom. Let's begin dismantling shame brick by nefarious brick. The Exercise-Part 1 All right, let’s visualize here. First, think of … [Read more...]
Unearth Your Mission Statement
We spent the last few weeks discovering our life verses, spiritual gifts and body parts. Now we can squish it into one compact statement. Your mission statement. 18 years ago God nudged me to run for secretary of the student council in the community college I attended. … [Read more...]
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