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Today I'm traveling to the funeral of our friend and neighbor, Sandra Shiraz. She was always so full of joy. She loved Jesus a lot and she loved our f...
Half an hour ago at 6:10 a.m., my phone rang. It was Estie with the news that our friend had died. I'm going to wait to talk about what our friend ...
Anthony looked like a Nicaraguan Justin Bieber. A street kid with his own special charisma, Anthony trusted Jesus because Lisa Smith cared enough to p...
Paul Young just shared this song lyric from Leonard Cohen - it made my day. You'll enjoy it. "The Anthem" Ring the bells that stil...
Jesus wants more of his followers to see the world's pain, horrible though it may be. This is not a happy thing for most of us. It produces a sense of...
Henri Nouwen is profound on the subject of how we contribute to suffering: People who live close together can be sources of great sorrow for one an...
We're all in the process of going from weakness to strength, from wounding to health. Henri Nouwen understood and exemplified the healing power of ...
We've all got issues. We all struggle to get to a place of freedom in our lives. But here's the paradox: as we share our struggle and weakness with ot...
Yesterday's blog post referenced one young man's cry of pain for having grown up fatherless. But so many of us bear deep pain of one sort or another. ...
To be human is to suffer pain, it's to feel wounded and to struggle to get to a place of healing. No one is immune and some people have so much pain i...
