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 [...]

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

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

I don’t know about you, but I complained a lot this past week. I complained about: * my “check engine light” coming on again in my completely paid for Jeep * a long day at work where I get paid for working with the most amazing people * the doctor’s office not calling in my [...]

  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.” [...]

Today is my daughter’s fourth birthday! I awakened to this text message from her: “Today I am grateful for 4 years of sobriety, that I am not defined by who I used to be but I am a stronger person because of it, for a huge God who loves me even when I don’t love [...]

Tags: Alcohlolics Anonymous, alcoholism, Mumford & Sons, Recovery, Salvation Story

This is one of my favorite contributions to the Salvation Story project from my friend, Meagan.  Not only does Meagan tell one of her own Salvation Stories, but she tells us all what to say when we don’t know what to say. I don’t think the exact word that her messenger of grace spoke is [...]

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 [...]

We are here — over 24 hour later, some food that I don’t find appealing but others love and I’m SO glad they do), and there are two things I can tell you for sure that are a part or all of God’s salvation stories: 1. We really don’t know what we’re doing.  I’m not [...]

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 [...]