The shame of rejection

Rejection. No one likes it. In fact, we go to great lengths to avoid it. I remember standing in the cafeteria in high school waiting for the first bell to ring. Everyone had someone to talk to. Except me. My friends were absent from school. I felt alone. Like a …

When You’re Your Worst Critic

Do you have a project you dread doing? One that squiggles around in your mind when you’re trying to go to sleep? One you push further into the cobwebs hoping you’ll wake up to a magical fairy having done it for you? This morning I scrounged into the depths of …

Facing Fear with Confidence

“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.” Eph. 3:18 (NTL)  It doesn’t matter where he is in the house, as soon as I pull the vacuum my cat, Asher wakes from his …

Why I care what you think about me.

But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. Isaiah 50:7 I care what people think about me. I want you to like me. I try and …

How to Go On a Spiritual Retreat at Home: 12 Steps for a Restorative Retreat

After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone. Matthew 14:23 My three-year-old son rumbled his big rig toward me, parked in front of my toe, and opened the truck’s rear cargo doors …

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