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 [...]

I have a new friend — a new partner in the way Richard Rohr describes heaven-made partners: “Suffering people can love and trust a suffering God, Only a suffering God can save suffering people, those who have passed across this chasm can and will save one another.” Terry called me recently to tell me he’d [...]

It’s been almost three months since I last posted a Salvation Story.  Time does truly fly sometimes, doesn’t it?  There isn’t a tragic or wonderful reason I haven’t written.  I’ve been busy.  My clients have been more burdened, more needy, more desperate . . . and I’ve been more privileged than usual to be a [...]

Tags: Addiction, Breathe, Busyness, Grace, Jesus, The Olympics, vacation

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

The smell of roasted turkey filled the house.  The island in the kitchen was covered with all of the traditional Thanksgiving dishes — a mound of mashed potatoes with a dab of butter melting through the center, homemade stuffing crammed with bits of apples and walnuts, broccoli and rice casserole loaded with melted cheddar cheese [...]

Tags: Addiction, Colorado, counselor, Sharon Hersh, substance abuse, Thanksgiving

Once again it has been a long time since I have written.  My days have been filled with doctor’s appointments, biopsies, more doctor’s appointments, antibiotics, surgery, more doctor’s appointments, more antibiotics, continued laryngitis, and maybe — just maybe an end that is finally in sight.  The “suspicious” nodules on my thyroid have been removed — along with [...]

Tags: Hope of Strange Women

A lot of little things have kept me from writing lately. A little slit — about 2 inches long — allowed burglars to slip a gadget through the screen on my parents’ sun porch, unlatch their door lock, walk into their home and rob them.  They stole a big-screen television, computers, and a few other [...]

Tags: Burglary, Little Things, Loss, Thyroid Tumor

It’s been a few months since I’ve posted a blog — in case anyone is keeping track.  The primary reason this well has been dry is that I have been in the final editing stages of my new book — Begin Again, Believe Again: Embracing the Courage to Love With Abandon — which will be [...]

Tags: Add new tag, Beginning Again, Finding Jesus in the Story, Starting Over