Growing up, my mother was an alcoholic. She began drinking her family troubles and tiny town boredom away at 14, developed into a functioning alcoholic during her 20s, and descended into a full fledged chronic alcoholic during her 30s. Somewhere around her late 30s, her alcoholic binges became longer and longer; she was coming home…
It is a wonderful life with Jesus, but any christian passionate for the Lord also knows that we are not guaranteed smooth sailing after the salvation prayer. The word tells us many times that we will suffer, but that we should not despair over our hard times and struggles. Peter put it bluntly when he…
What do you do when you have a question that you’re not sure you want answered? If you are like me, you bury it deep and ignore it until it’s creeping existence in your mind becomes more like a blaring alarm you can’t ignore. Or, you ignore it until someone asks you a question about…
It seems that almost everywhere I look I encounter some sort of cause. Our world is consumed with causes right now. And for each cause there are countless propaganda and voices speaking out. But how many people are really being won (on either side)? I have read various articles and open letters for causes with…
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you KNOW that you need to pray, but your prayers feel like empty words because for whatever reason at that moment you feel distant or disconnected from the Holy Spirit? Recently I was rerouted to ride on a local bus because my train was not running.…
I have noticed that I attract people whom society may consider “outside the norm”. Complete strangers often feel comfortable opening up to me or asking me for help. If I am standing in a group of 20 people, it seems that I am the one person who gets approached by strangers. These strangers approach me for…