Nomadic Normalcy

I am in amazement that I was drawn to a CS Lewis clip because it was a sneaky way for the Lord to address the underlinings of my boredom and burnout with church life.  The headline read “healing the wound in your minds“ and yet it covered a topic completely unexpected. Even as I write …

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The measure of success

In all my years of counseling and studying behavioral psychology, I have often questioned the black and white thinking phenomenon that psychology deems as wrong, because it served me greatly when I believed the devil was bad, and God was good in moments of trial. It was easier for me to keep the grays from …

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Shake your fists at God

Why can't we express ourselves to God with anger? I'm angry but I'm told to repent and stuff it, how the hell is that being transparent with Daddy? Doesn't He already know why my heart is suffering? I've never adapted well to the "be good" type of Christianity that many appeal to. I know I'm …

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Anger over how You didn’t love me.

I want to love to the best of my ability, to choose to stay in the present so I'm not so focused on my future escape plan from relationships that frustrate me.  I don't know where my next destination is but focusing on the things I hate about my current circumstances is stealing my peace …

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Help yourself

I've been told that my helping others has been a distraction from working on myself.  Geez, isn't the best remedy to inner healing trying to help someone else heal?  What about getting out of my head and focusing on the welfare of another?  That has to do something for lifting the doldrums, right?  Well, not …

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