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Daringly Honest Thoughts About God, Life and People


I Ran into Myself at the Psych Center Today
It was at the patients’ art show, where I saw myself, represented by one long, blue strand of yarn. “It’s called ‘Support Net,’” the art...
May 24, 20132 min read


Why God Bottles Our Tears
At times I’ve wondered why the Psalmist wrote that Got puts all our tears in a bottle (Psalm 56:8). I thought about it again recently, as...
Apr 25, 20131 min read


So You Don’t Have it All Together
Are you one of us who doesn’t have it all together? And do you have people in your life who seem to accentuate the fact when they come...
Apr 15, 20132 min read


How an Eggnog Disaster Saved My Relationship with My Daughter
Recently a friend was describing to me one of her saddest childhood memories. Every day she’d come home from school to an empty house and...
Jan 4, 20133 min read


He Said I'd Have a New Teenager in Five Minutes
Thanks, Dr. Leman, but sometimes I don’t feel I can wait until Friday to put an end to the cold distance and eye-rolling of a...
Oct 31, 20122 min read


"God is Good" and Other Annoying Things Church People Like to Say
Have you ever noticed that when church people say, “God is good!” it’s often in the context of God doing something good for them? I got...
Jul 22, 20122 min read
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