But Lord I can’t… But Lord it’s too hard…. But Lord, she…. But Lord, he… But Lord this election…. But Lord……But Lord….. How many times a week, a day, do I utter those words in my heart? I whine to God. I make excuses before God. I stomp my foot and have an all out […]
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“Mom, are you sad?” My nine year old daughter examines my face. She snuggles up closer to me in her twin bed. “Mom, are you ok? You seem kinda sad.” My thirteen year old man-child asks as I bend to kiss his forehead and turn off his reading light. “You ok?” My husband inquires as […]
An Apology to Brussels Sprouts
Forgive me Brussels sprouts. For I have misjudged you terribly. For years (more than 3 decades worth), I have scorned you. Mocked you. Avoided you. Belittled you. I thought I knew you. I thought I understood you. I thought my feelings were justified. I never pushed you on my children because I assumed they would feel […]
So a baptist girl walks into a charismatic concert….
Important facts to know about me before reading this post: 1) I was raised in a southern Baptist church. While we would clap after solos, it was most definitely a controlled clap. An occasional “amen” could be heard during a rousing sermon. And I probably consumed my body weight in fried chicken and sweet tea […]
Could America be Grieving?
Although I have been writing now for the past five years, my formal training is in counseling. Specifically grief, or bereavement, counseling. I worked for several years as a grief counselor at a local Hospice in Pinellas county Florida, and while there attended a bereavement workshop hosted by a well known grief counselor named Alan […]