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 [...]

I haven’t written for several weeks, because I have been involved in a new project — creating phone apps!  As my son said, “Who would have thought you would be working in technology?!”  The truth is, it has been a lot of fun and a great outlet for renewed creative juices.  The mobile phone/tablet apps are [...]

This is a salvation story written by Mary — my generous, tender-hearted friend.  The story came to her after reading the New Testament letter from the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians.  What stories, verses, sounds, or experiences remind you of your Salvation Story?  I read recently, “When we are more afraid of the power of [...]

This is the edited version of the blog I sent out last night.  Apparently, the tears that were still in my eyes blinded me to all the typos or I simply forgot to use the miracle of spellcheck. I went to a movie with my parents tonight — that seems to be a new American [...]

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I took a fast from Facebook because I was getting bogged down in emails, appointments, blogs to be written, etc., etc.  In other words, I was getting crushed under the pile of thinking I was pretty important.  Jesus really is a genius when it comes to knowing how our hearts work.  Just when I start [...]

Tags: Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Salvation Story, Self-Importance

The most flawed relationship in my life is with my daughter. Kristin is twenty-five years old and we have yelled and screamed at each other and gone on fabulous shopping trips to Chicago or L.A. There were scary nights when she was in in high school and I had no idea where she was and [...]

Tags: Eating Disorders, Kristin Golden, Perfectionism, Salvation Stories

Nothing has gone right these past days.  My Blackberry stopped working. (That is not a minor glitch for me — my Blackberry!!!)  That is a dark day.  And then the dashboard of my car flashed with all kinds of symbols that meant nothing to me — except that I knew that the simultaneous grinding sounds from the [...]

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BEFORE READING: Please know that my intention in writing the blog below was not to shame anyone.  Quite honestly I wrote this blog immediately after watching the 20/20 program and it practically wrote itself — without any checks in my spirit.  After receiving one email from a friend concerned that I was doing the same [...]

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Dating update for all you kind enough to ask:  I’ve had my first, awkward, anxiety-filled date.  It was not a match.  The second “opportunity” is this week! Today I went to a place called BridgeHouse.  It is a critical care unit for adults who require acute psychiatric care.  When I arrived I pushed a button [...]

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