Grief is an enduring emotion that torments those whom it afflicts with a galling sense of regret. It continually drags the heart through painful territory that one would rather not revisit. There is a a form of protest in the pain of sorrow that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How exhausting strong emotions can be. If only the exhaustion from strong emotions brought the welcome reward of restful sleep, but it doesn't. It intensifies numbing pain and inflames answerless questions. Surely this is what David felt as he...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Yes, I confess, I have sung these lyrics, sometimes in my head, sometimes out loud, at different times of difficulty over the past three decades. I am referring to John Mellencamp's 1982 ballad of Jack and Diane; “Saying oh yeah, Life goes...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Won't you please take a picture of this?” I looked up to see Charleen holding the white gerbera flower she had picked at the flower farm the previous day. High up on the long stalk of the flower, Randall, our pet chameleon, had...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I sat with my arm around her that night, watching the aeroplanes lift-off from a glistening runway, setting out on their mysterious journeys to who-knows-where. Soft rain pattered down on the windscreen of my pristine '72 Chevy El-Camino, while a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The tears just wouldn't stop welling up in my eyes as I spoke, betraying the emotions drubbing like an old pair of army boots in a washing machine, inside the hole in my heart. Josh, my dear friend, pastor, and fellow-elder, gave me time. And he...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
You, my friend, may not have seen it until now, flickering in the dark, yet in my hand I hold a lantern. On this night, I reach out toward you in your darkness to assure you that I have walked where you walk. I have tasted the hurt of very...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
