January is human trafficking (damage) awareness month. This subject is very important to me. So much so, that I am sometimes drawn into discussions concerning victims who are also perpetrators of other crimes. Victim/Offender I committed petty theft, participated in breaking and entering, and auto theft as...
"No greater love, has anyone that this: to lay down their life for another," DP translation of John 15:13. No Greater Love You can say the words all you want, but if you are not actively making sacrifices for another person's benefit and wellbeing, you are not...
How often do we recognize that timing is everything?Hitting traffic on the highway, gathering people for a meeting, the beauty of a blooming flower: the list of possibilities wherein ‘timing is everything’ is infinite. Obviously, some things require more convergence than others. The photo above...
I hope to help juvenile sex trafficking survivors and adult survivors too. Both labor and sex trafficking happen here in the United States and both domestic and international victims need help to become survivors. Ultimately, for survivors to thrive, safe housing and a restorative environment...
How is it possible to make all things new? Perspective Everything we encounter is interpreted exclusively by each person, even when more than one person is experiencing the same event. I noticed an announcement for some corrective lenses for color blindness and was instantly reminded that even...
I don't think I have Rahab's gift of Faith. Rather than preserve my dignity, I am posing the question to you. Would you shrug or meltdown? De Launch! Some of you may know that the online course I wrote with the help of Sarah Quale, from National...
Stuck Are you stuck in a rut? So many people are. I know a lot of people with chronic illness, like Lyme, that have seasons of blah and seasons of exciting growth. I often wonder what makes the difference. Are they just lucky, especially motivated, inexplicably...
My time is often spent online on my laptop computer. Chronic illness relegates many of us to life here, but I often seek life off-line.I had all but forgotten what it was like to sweep off my front steps. They get the morning sun and...
How Are YOU? We smile and nod when people ask us how we are. If you are like a lot of people with chronic or neurological Lyme Disease, the thought of answering the question conjures up no end to excuses to answer with a polite, “I’m...
Plan If you are like most people, planning may slip now and again. You may have indulged in a bit of frivolity last month. The scale may need some adjusting. Maybe you have an unruly wardrobe. Or maybe nothing changed externally, but you can feel the...