What strategies do you use to process your painful emotions? Can you label them? Do you know what sadness feels like? Do you know how fear feels? What does anger do to your insides? Sad, mad, glad, and fear. Those are often considered the four basic categories of emotions. Labeling is the first step. A …
Category Archives: Christian Devotional
A Tenacious Focus
Even if you have a difficult father to overcome, as I did, God wants to father you into all he's made you to be. That sentence capsulizes my memoir, Trading Fathers. When I first began to write my story of wrestling with God, honing that sentence took six months. Getting the story in a sentence …
Beauty That Lasts
For many years, the entry to our bungalow was a door comprised of scraps of redwood. My craftsman husband had built a redwood strip canoe, leaving leftover narrow pieces. On the jobsite of architecturally designed houses as an electrician, he’d also gathered pieces of 1 x 4 redwood lumber. Putting them together, we designed an …