Had a great discussion the other day with a friend who asked some probing questions about ministering to someone in deep grief. We tossed around some thoughts about the differences in every-day negative emotions and deep emotions from grief. It’s my opinion that they are a bit different although there are some parallels. The six […]
A Slurp of Living Water
The last few years I have been on a passionate mission to help others learn to listen to Jesus during prayer as well as talking to Him, and to learn to turn to Him all day long as a lifestyle. The other day I woke up with a mental picture of something I thought would […]
Truth and Pain–Part Two
(This information on Truth and Pain is taken from material by Dr. Jim Wilder and Dr. Karl Lehman) Sometimes events happen that bring us lots of pain and, as we looked at in the last blog, a word of truth does not always take away that deep level pain we feel when not able to […]
Musings from the book, Joy Starts Here
For some months now I’ve been musing on a section from the book Joy Starts Here, by Dr. Wilder, Ed Khouri, Chris Coursey, and Shelia Sutton. The more I’ve mused on these paragraphs, the more interesting these points have become and the more convinced I am that they are vitally important—but little known. So in […]
Helping Young Adults Evaluate Possible Mates
I was going through some old files to prepare for a workshop that is coming up and I found an old paper that I had shared a few years back at a break-out group for young people. It seemed beneficial to share it with my blog-o-sphere. This is just a brief look at how to […]
We Can Find Our Value By What Causes Us Pain
This excerpt about how we find our value from what causes us pain is from Chapter Nine in my new book, Re-Framing Your Hurts: Why You Don’t Have to Fear Emotional Pain. This is a very different way to view pain that I learned from Dr. Wilder in the 1990’s. It might encourage you to […]