As I arrived, Jim, a handsome tow-headed boy of ten, ran down to greet “Miss Cindy.” Every day I took him to the nearby hollow where I directed a recreation enrichment program for the mountain children. Jim was beautiful and bright—a ray of hope amid the squalor. He lived with hi...
2. Share the pain in your heart with a close friend whom you trust.There’s a saying that goes like this: “Hurting people hurt people.” If you are in pain, there is a real good chance that your pain is going to overflow to those around you. As a teacher or parent, you need ...
As I come before you today, I ask you to continue to help me make a choice each and every day to keep guard over my mouth. Let me use the self- discipline you have given me to discontinue those words that are not helpful to myself, my future generations or others. Let my words s...
She had a 5-bedroom, 3-story house just a few miles away. We packed our clothes and moved in that night. We stayed with her for most of that year until I could get on my feet. I cooked and cleaned and did my best to bless her back for how she’d blessed us. Looking back, i...
healed, lives transformed and death conquered. “I prefer a Church that is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.’(from Evangelii Gaudium – The Joy of the ...
Drawing on new, firsthand research and in-depth interviews, Safe Church allows women to voice the pain they have suffered at the hands of insecure leaders who were often unaware of how their words, actions, and attitudes were harming their sisters in Christ. With practical advice on how to ...
words are hurtful. I don’t feel the same way as you do. We cannot play together if you are excluding so-and-so.” The friend responds with a burst of anger, stomps off, and our daughter feels like the situation is unresolved and feels sad. Occasionally the friend will apologize, but...
“Don’t lose heart,” says a friend to another who has been discouraged by one of life’s many trials. Now how can anyone lose a heart? I ask. Easily, by getting discouraged. Again, the heart becomes a symbol of pumping life into a system but not a physical one. ...
For those experiencing a setback today… Let’s pray:Father,Today, we feel stuck …setback …and discouraged. We come to You, perhaps without words at all, to describe our desperate need for You. God, You are faithful, full of mercy and compassionate towards us. When we hurt, we do ...
But friend, this is not just for little girls. Like we need this solid daughter identity, a deeper daughter identity. From now until the day we see Jesus face to face, it’s the constant that will get you through every season of life rooted and grounded. ...