As I have counseled people through the years to forgive, I’ve heard them reply something like this, “Why me? Why do I always have to be the one to forgive? Don’t you know what they did to me?” When you feel that way please remember, even in the middle of your pain, forgiveness is the […]
It was a difficult time for Shannon. Difficult is a weak word for what she was going through. How do you describe the pain of uprooting your large family from your home town to move to a new city. Her dad was recovering from septic shock after brutal rounds of radiation and chemotherapy. But leaving […]
A New Year? Some folks call it a new page, a new door, a clean start. Really…I mean REALLY? A clean slate? I’m not a cynical person, but really? That’s a little miss leading. A New Door? Okay, because I love, absolutely love doors, let’s take the metaphor of a new door, […]
I must have sounded like a crazy woman. And if my neighbors had rubbed the sleep from their eyes and peered out the window, I’m sure they would be convinced their neighbor was a crazy woman. There I stood towering over the flowerbed with a bucket in one hand and a stick in the […]