Blog Posts

  • The Quality of Mercy is not Strained

    A new president was sworn in recently and one of the activities of the day was a prayer service. This is a tradition in American politics going back to 1937. The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington was tasked with leading the inaugural prayer.  Before offering her prayer, during a short… Read more

  • My ADD Brain – Distractibility

    Recognizing that my ADD brain works differently helps me understand myself. And to accept that it is ok for me to be who I am even if I show up differently than most people I know. It’s ok that I don’t always show up the way others think I should and it gives me the… Read more

  • The End?

    When natural disasters happen in our country there is a certain group of people who think and possibly proclaim that these are just signs that we are in “the Last Days”, that it’s the beginning of the end of our existence on planet earth, the “End Times”. Read more

  • Puzzling

    Having a skewed big picture of God and what the Bible is all about, it’s easy for the individual puzzle pieces to be used in a way to say something completely different than intended. Those concepts can then be used to inflict wounds and damage individuals. Read more

  • Traitor

    Narcissists are hard to spot because normal people don’t think like that. We look for the familiar and we think we see it in them, so we believe what we are being told by them. Read more

  • God Wills It!

    The cry of ‘God wills it’ has been used throughout history to justify all kinds of atrocities against people. No one wants to be on the wrong side of God and when leadership is pushing a direction that they claim is ‘God’s will’, it’s difficult to swim against that pressure. It’s more than peer pressure,… Read more