I always joke about my “tens” of readers…but I never expected to wake up to this milestone! So whoever you are, thank you for reading!! Continue reading

Trauma is a word used very casually these days. For most people it means just having a bad experience, usually one that “sticks,” and isn’t easily forgotten. But trauma actually is; any event that overwhelms our ability to cope. As any psychologist will tell you. The important distinction is that trauma is not what happened… Continue reading

Show me  How to wail and whimper  Weep and scream  The anguish  Through guttural cries  Teach me the rhythm  Of pounding my chest  And loosen my lips  To sing the notes of lament. -Grace P. Cho Continue reading

We do not grieve as those who have no hope. (1 Thessalonians 4:13) But I have been grieving a lot these past couple days, I don’t know about you. With everything going on in the news I have felt very depressed and very overwhelmed as I watch the country I once knew and loved, fall… Continue reading

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,    “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch,a King who will reign wisely    and do what is just and right in the land.” Fast forward to the time of Jeremiah, the people are on the cusp of exile. Jeremiah pleads with the people for 40 years to turn back to the Lord,… Continue reading