There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We submit...

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

In my gut - wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time.

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

Let go of the pain. But never forget the past lessons.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating - - something that shattered your self - confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to...

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less...

A wise sufferer will look not inward, but outward. There is no more effective healer than a wounded healer, and in the process the wounded healer's own scars may fade away.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

Today's practice is about clearing and releasing the hurts, wounds, and judgments you may hold about or against women. Our experience and expectations of women begins with our mothers. Chances are if...

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar...

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my...

I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together-the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired.

Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get...

A new story begins the moment an old one ends. But a denouement is a respite that calls us to stop the journey for a brief interlude - to eat, drink, sing, dance and tell our story to others.

But if we honestly name the passionate desires of our heart, and if we risk seeing those desires come to be, the plot of our life story will begin to move with greater intentionality. Yet the only way...

...you can be assured that the inciting events call for you to sacrifice your comfort and ease in order for your story to move forward. It's easy to ignore such inciting events...It's easy to flee...

Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our...

Our story will gain momentum and depth only to the degree that we honestly embrace both loss and fear.

The shattering {of shalom} moves us from a place of shalom to a place that is harsh and unrelenting. The shattering brings us a keen awareness that we are alone and in danger. We are on our own.

A denouement is not a complete or fully resolved ending but a satisfying closure to a story. {in French translates 'an untying, a relaxing of a knot of complexity'}Denouement is the rest that comes...

God is not bound by time, nor is our story. We desperately want our situation to be solved. We want resolution. But, God unfolds the plot in His own time. It is in our months or years of waiting that...

Tragedy always moves our story forward in a way shalom could never accomplish.

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.