Not Nuts, Just Adjusting
My new friend and I agreed: We’re not nuts, just adjusting! “How long will this go on?”
Hard Boundaries
Allison Bottke provides and easy to remember helpful tool called ‘Sanity.’ Her 6-step acronym is found in her book, Setting Boundaries with your Adult Children.
College Students
With a new peer group, without the eyes and ears of family and old friends, they’ll test what they believe in a different environment. Will their actions stem from outer restraint?
Experts in Conflict
My friend needs wisdom. She has cancer and two specialists disagree. One recommends surgery. The other chemotherapy for the rest of her life. Who will decide?
Small Effort
I’m encouraged daily by my friend, Margaret Nyman’s blog. Her spiritual insights challenge me. She recently observed that her beach had changed. Rains had produced a new river running through it. How?
Harvest Time
How long will the harvest time last?
New Things
I love the familiar. Ordinary life mornings, spiritual refreshment, coffee, and journal. Doing things I know how to do. Knowing what comes next. But
School
May I challenge each of you to pray for every child in school?
A Year to Get Over It
My young friend’s husband who was dying of ALS was told by her counselor that she would have a year to get over it and a year to get on with it. Eee! Gads! Wearing both my professional counselor hat and widow hat, that’s wrong.
Truth and Empathy
How many times has God gently corrected me, given me another chance, loved me with a tenderness I did not deserve?