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Life’s Challenges

Heating and pounding

Have you ever watched a silversmith work? It’s mesmerizing. As a child, I attended a renaissance festival and was captivated by the craftsmanship. The…

Life’s Challenges

It’s all on you

I couldn’t do what Moses did. You couldn’t either. In Exodus chapter 17 (read the whole chapter; it’s a short one!), the Israelites, who…

Life’s Challenges

Almost home

Did you know the average life expectancy in the U.S. according to WorldData is 74.5 years for men and 80.2 years for women? Subtract…

Life’s Challenges

Before the beginning

Feeling unsettled? scared? like it all depends on you? like you’re powerless to do what needs to be done? Feeling sick of others? tired…

Life’s Challenges

A dull ache

Loneliness is real. The world is filled with people who live with a dull, nagging ache inside them much of the time.  Many of…

Who is God?

Can I have your attention?

Before smartphones and Facebook, humans could focus on something for at least 15 seconds before our minds began to wander.  Today, researchers say that…

Depression & Anxiety

How to overcome unwanted emotions

Emotions don’t have a morality. They are not good or bad, right or wrong. There is a proper time, place, and purpose for every…

Depression & Anxiety

No separation anxiety

I was in a department store one day when suddenly I heard a bloodcurdling scream, followed by relentless sobbing. A little boy had gotten…

Life’s Challenges

Today, not someday

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin called Johnson Creek. My nearest friend was miles away in another “metropolis,” Helenville. The busy…

Friends & Family

Cabin fever

Winter in the north is hard on machinery and people. Winter stops being crisp really fast. Ice-cold things grind slowly if they grind at…

Depression & Anxiety

Mr. Lonely

Ready or not, here it comes. Jingle bells rockin’ round your Christmas tree with your little drummer boy and your Santa baby while you…

Depression & Anxiety

Messy comfort

My ten-year-old is a big stuffed animal guy. He sleeps with one fox, one dog, four bears, two monkeys, one woolly mammoth, and at…