Grief is a gift that our culture doesn’t take seriously or see as valuable. We do everything we can to avoid the process of experiencing pain, letting go of the past, and accepting that we might have been wrong. Doing these things, I believe, was meant to be the pathway to peace. A system…
As of last week, my daughter now lives 3,000 miles away in New York City, so I am learning a whole new level of trust in God. I feel like Luigi in a Nintendo game, conquering one realm only to find myself on a more difficult one. Level up! My early years of video…
Defeat can be excruciating, especially for the person whose identity is adhered to the their activity. When you believe your strength is the thing that is now gone, agonizing feelings of loss and grief come alongside the physical trauma of an accident. This was my head-space when injury claimed my athleticism. I felt as…
Last month, while in Hawaii, I wrote a post entitled Conquering Fear-Moving Forward With A Big Splash. In this post, I talked about how we need to push back against fear in order to gain ground against it. A personal example was happening in real-time…overcoming the fear of drowning by becoming comfortable in our…
