My relationship with alcohol has never been healthy. By the age of five years old I would look at any bottle containing any kind of fermented drink and I despised its existence. Alcohol was the enemy. It had taken my easy-going, happy, father captive and morphed him into a man I did not recognize. My […]
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Why Change is So Gut-Wrenchingly Hard
I recently had a horrible fight with my teenage son and called him a word which begins with an A and ends with an e. The mom who writes about Jesus and has an inflated puffy head because she doesn’t “cuss” in front of her kids. I was horrified. Then I had to ask […]
A Letter to The Church On Addiction: It’s Time We Wake Up
My phone rang and it was my father asking if I would meet him at his pastor friend’s church. He was taking a young man there dying from heroin addiction. He asked me to come and pray with them. I drove right over and as soon as I entered the pastor’s office I noticed the […]
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