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 …
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The Last Act?
"When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."Luke 21:28 Lately, this scripture plays in the back of my mind, like a soundtrack. Is it my age or the stage of the world? At 58, I'm at the beginning of my last act here. …
A Useful “Why?”
When serious suffering penetrates our hearts, we often ask God, “Why?” Why did I lose my job? Why am I not married? Why did my child die of cancer? Why did my wife walk out? Why did my father leave? As an ultimate question, it’s unanswerable. However, “why” produces insight when we ask it in …