I’ve been giving some thought for a while now on how to manage difficult situations in the most Christ-like way I can. Preserving decency in poor relationships is the biggest challenge I’ve faced and this post is the first in…
Internal Arguments vs The Knowledge of God
One of the things about being a single parent – and I’d imagine a single adult – is that at home you don’t have any other voices (adult voices anyway) to counter your internal dialogue. In my case, at home…
The Danger of Shame and the Value of Guilt
This winter, I’ve joined a Bible study on racial reconciliation and the role the church plays in this process. This week’s lesson was on the shame we can feel as a part of examining our past as a cultural group…
The Hindsight of Twenty Years
Crap. Crap. Crap, crap, crap. It took until about the second week of 2018 that it hit me. Crap. This May is the 20-year anniversary of when I graduated from college. Crap. Not high school, but college. Crap, crap….you get…
How Then Shall We Live?
I’m almost four years removed from “the day”….that day when everything changed, when trust was broken for good, when I picked my kids up from school and we never went back to a dual-parent household. That day seems like the…
