When you’ve been in the business of counseling or pastoring for a while, you begin to notice how life’s difficulties become almost seasonal: anxiety and stress in the Fall as school starts, loneliness and family disruption around the holidays, and sadness in the...
How do you answer that question? Are the holidays a time of rejoicing, gratitude, and giving? Or, are they a time of pressure, stress, and expectations? The holiday season provides a break, a distraction, from the rhythm of life. That break can...
When I was a kid, I was both fascinated and intimidated by the giant steel arch-shaped swings that every amusement park seemed to have in the 1990’s. Part of that fascination had to do with how fun and how scary the ride looked. But part of it had to do with the...
How do you answer that question? Are the holidays a time of rejoicing, gratitude, and giving? Or, are they a time of pressure, stress, and expectations? The holiday season provides a break, a distraction, from the rhythm of life. That break can...
Earlier this week, my one year-old daughter was playing with a toy on the bed. I watched her pick up the toy, throw it off the bed onto the floor, and then in an attempt to retrieve the toy, dive headlong after it over the side of the bed. Totally unafraid of the fall...
