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Don’t be Duped

Before I was saved, meaning rescued by some mysterious instinct in the middle of the night that drove me to the closest church down the street, which happened to be a Catholic church where the priest really hooked me with his complaints about their antiquated sound...

The Shifting Perspective of the Youngsters

This is a theory. This is only a theory. All of the “bad things” about society, as promoted in our current culture, are hitting us where it hurts; at the grocery store. What are those bad things? Order Hierarchies Protocol Politeness and … The common axiom of good...

Where is All of This Going?

Where is All of This Going?

Acting upon the suggestions I received from some of you regarding my daughter, I found myself placed in a new spiritual proximity to vibes and tensions and thought-patterns any sane person should want to avoid. I am not a Catholic. That’s just a statement of fact, not...

Becoming a Curmudgeon

Becoming a Curmudgeon

Weirdly, I’m starting to see why people sometimes find me hard to be around. Have you hit that stage yet? It’s not fun. Oh, don’t get me wrong … I totally agree with my own assessment of my increasingly curmudgeonly temperament. I think the term curmudgeon is only for...

Literal Chest Pains … Parenting a Pandemic Kid

Literal Chest Pains … Parenting a Pandemic Kid

Oh, the good old days when I compartmentalized everything, shielding myself from emotional pain, disassociating from the political beat-downs I was hired as a proxy to suffer, and feeling free to fill my time with all kind of distractions for professional advancement....

A Christmas Gift … Going Blind

A Christmas Gift … Going Blind

Over the past 4 to 6 weeks, I’ve had a hard time seeing out of my left eye. You might say, “Then just use your right!,” right? Not so fast sister … I have mono-vision, and my left eye is my reading books eye … my reading music eye … my designing eye … my photography...

A Little Tozer … Part 4: Talking About the Dark Night of the Soul

A Little Tozer … Part 4: Talking About the Dark Night of the Soul

This is Part 4 in a Tozer-inspired series of posts, drawing insights from his book The Crucified Life. In this post, we go to a place that I think may be a less commonly experienced, or less recognized, part of the Christian journey of transformation. It is the dark...

A Little Tozer to Sober Us Up: Part 2 – Talking About the Cross

A Little Tozer to Sober Us Up: Part 2 – Talking About the Cross

This is Part 2 in a mini-series of blog posts I decided to write that are inspired by A.W. Tozer’s The Crucified Life. I’m not certain it was such a great idea, especially given that the content comes down pretty hard on both current-day Christians, and on the church...

A Little Tozer to Sober Us Up: Part 1 – Seeking Our Interests

A Little Tozer to Sober Us Up: Part 1 – Seeking Our Interests

Part 1 - Seeking Our Interests A.W. Tozer is one of my anchoring influencers. He’s the writer who calls things out, makes sense of it all, tells me that I’m not such an oddball, and consistently offers myriad and insightful observations that resonate like the sound of...

A Mom in Liminal Space

A Mom in Liminal Space

I’m a mom. My two children are too young to be my children, but God had a different idea for all three of us. The oldest suffers from mental illnesses (yes, plural) that have formed an alliance against her. Their sinister intentions cannot be dissuaded, but they can...