We are almost there.  In a little over twenty-four hours we get to start a new year.  A new year.  In the past, I have anticipated the beginning of a new year with resolve to . . . * lose weight — become a new me in a smaller size with new habits that include [...]

Wow!  It has been a long time since I’ve written — not because there have been no salvation stories, but perhaps because there have been so many of them.  Salvation Stories beginning, unfolding, confusing, challenging, terrifying, encouraging, emerging, disentangling, releasing, unravelling, confounding, baffling, arousing, exacting, imposing, heartbreaking, and continuing  . . . . If I used [...]

OCTOBER 1, 2012 begins the testing period for the Mobile Phone Apps I’ve been working on to bring Therapy to the IPhone; to bring what is not seen (true reality – that require faith to see there’s more than meets the eye; an opportunity to look at incredibly private and personal issues like body image [...]

My Mother’s Day plans for this year were no different than they have been in the past two years.  I planned to stay home, not get out of my pajamas, and watch re-runs of Law & Order all day — all plans indicating that this Hallmark Holiday would not look like any of those Hallmark cards [...]

Tags: Mother's Day, Redemption, Salvation Story, Thanksgiving

  Last night, as I was sleeping I dreamt — marvelous error! – that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. Robert Antonio Machado   “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” [...]

The second word that God formed in my heart to meditate on while I was in Asia was “individuality.”  I wondered about this word until I met all the amazingly unique people — just on the small team that I was privileged to travel with.   And then I had the chance to wander the [...]

Tags: Asia Adventure; Salvation Story; Loneliness; Redemption

I haven’t written for a while because the trip to Asia took a lot out of me!  But the stories I have to tell! Before I left I prayed for God to put some words on my heart, and the first word that came quickly to mind was flexibility.  I already knew that long flights [...]

Tags: Asia Adventure, Broken Marriage, Busted Jeart, Flexibility

I went to a movie with my parents tonight — that seems to be a new American Christmas tradition, doesn’t it?  My dad picked it out — War Horse.  All of the Internet posts used words like “beloved”, “hopeful” and “inspirational that are translatable to our own lives as well when times are tough.”  Who could [...]

There’s a right time for birth and another for death, A right time to kill and another to heal, A right time to rip out and another mend, A right time to hold on and another to let go, A right time to make love and another to abstain, A right time to shut up [...]

On this Halloween weekend it does not surprise me that I am typing this 13th Salvation Story “hunt and peck”, tediously-and-agonizingly slow style. My ten-year-old Compaq laptop has been taken out by a terrorist attack. Earlier this week I was writing a significant email to friends who are facing insurmountable struggles in their lives – [...]

Tags: football, Halloween, prayer, spiritual warfare, tebowing, Tim Tebow