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…
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…