I was thinking about the post I wrote the other day about the homeless young lady, Britney. It took me back to the lowest moments in my life, and made me wonder about the millions of people around the world who might consider those moments their high points. Stumbling across…
Category: 1. Mental Health, Resilience, and Personal Growth
I should have known the rental car price from Budget for my trip to Texas City was too low. But instead, I thought I was just an astute bargain shopper—until I landed in Houston and arrived at the rental counter, only to discover that my “deal” was for an electric…
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to…
What is happy? Hard to say when it feels like all I do is chase everything but happy. A text. An email. A flight. A bill. A fire to put out. A worry that won’t go away. Regret. Constant noise. So I run from it. Even if I’m eating the…
The tyrannical government of Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown. He was a brutal dictator, deserving his place in the dustbin of history. His regime mastered the art of torturing and disappearing its own citizens, ruling through fear and intimidation. But war is rarely that clear-cut. Assad also protected one of…
You might be a pure materialist. But if you believe we were created in any way in the image of God, then we cannot be fully living in reality unless we are in relationship with Him. As mentioned in an earlier post, “Our brain is a transducer”—we are body and…