I love ringing in the New Year. I love the feeling that accompanies the blank slate that is the countdown to the calendar change. It screams second chances. It feels freeing and challenging. It’s a day full of HOPE! As this New Year settles upon all of us, I thought I...
Yesterday I posted this picture. In a matter of minutes I received two text messages. As I wrote on Facebook, these two short conversations depict the vivid paradox that is sobriety. Joy and Fear. Although neither man says much in his message. It’s very easy to read...
Today its heavy on my heart that you need to know something – You Will Overcome! I don’t know what it is you’re facing today, it could be divorce, loneliness, depression, addiction, lust, abuse or maybe some combination of all the above. I have no...
On my last day of treatment just over three years ago I wrote this in my journal… “My time here has gone by way too fast. I’ve pondered many times what today would be like. What would be said at my transition ceremony, who would be there, what it would all feel like....
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 As I look out over the city of Jersulalum and specifically the Kidron Valley, between the Mount of Olives and the Temple Mount,...
They say change is a good thing…right? At least I’ve heard people say that before. But what happens when change isn’t good. When it sucks. When you hate it and would do anything within your power to change the change? Is that when we’re supposed to step...