“If I really let myself cry, I’ll never stop.” My college-age client looked out the window as she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. I’d been seeing her for several weeks and today, we’d begun to discuss her painful childhood. It was just her and her mom. Her dad had left when …
Category Archives: Finding Peace Devotional
What Sin is This?
“But we were a classic American family. That’s what my father said. We’d gather at the dinner table and he’d say, ‘What a great American family!’” “And what was dinner like?” I leaned towards the young woman in the other chair. I’d been seeing her in therapy every week for a few months. “Dinner was …
Name That Sin
Forgiveness begins with, “What is the sin?” That is what God calls us to forgive. We start with identifying the thoughts/words/actions that convey indifference to needs. In its broadest sense, sin is that which is not love–not in our own or someone else’s best interests. Some of these happened to some of us. We need …