Some days you will be the light for others, and some days you will need some light from them. As long as there is light, there is hope, and there is a way.
04280 – Some Days…
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04130 – What Makes Absence Hurt?
There is no sense of absence where there has been no sense of presence. What makes absence hurt, what makes it ache, is the memory of what used to be there but is no longer. Absence is the arm flung across the bed in the middle of the night, the empty space where a...
04105 – Easter Sunrise
Sunrise in the story of Easter is not just a time of day; it is a state of the heart. Sunrise is the space where nighttime fears move aside for hope, where we feel peace about our mortality in the scope of the universal truth that love abides and where we feel light...
04000 – It’s a Dangerous Thing…
It's a dangerous thing, though, to confuse the church with God. The church is not and never has been divine, even in the moments where it has been a channel for healing and hope and change. But while I stand by those words, the truth is that I have never been able to...
03969 – Hope & Despair, Change & Will
Hope is not blind faith that things will get better. It's a realistic belief that things can get better. Despair is an illusion of certainty. Hope is an appreciation of possibility. Change requires a way. There is no way without will. There is no will without...
03918 – Life: An Unmissable Show!
You can be flawed, anxious and sometimes irritated, but don't forget that your life is the greatest company in the world. Only you can prevent her from going into decline. There are many who appreciate, admire and love you. And you don't know but there are people for...
03890 – Avoiding Self-Righteousness
We are all hypocrites to some degree — passionately promoting ideas we have not ourselves fully lived, taking others to task for frailties and failures not that dissimilar from our own. Knowing this, we should all be more gentle, more hopeful, more merciful with one...
03885 – God Inexplicably Loves Sinners
The only hope for any of us, regardless for our particular sins, lies in a ruthless trust in a God who inexplicably loves sinners, including those who sin differently than we do. from Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
03881 – How to Live a Better Life
You can't make yourself feel bad enough about the past to change it. Ultimately, self-loathing is as narcissistic as self-torture is wasteful. The fact is, those distracting pursuits help no one…not those injured by your mistakes nor you who made them. There is a...
03863 – Acknowledging Unseen Goodness
Let us pause to acknowledge the unseen goodness around us. We may not see it, but it is always here – a small universe of kindness and compassion – lived out around us every day, unseen but constant. People helping, people caring, people listening. The creators of...