All I Really Want in Life
I had one of those strange dreams last night that makes one wake with the perplexing thought, “where does this stuff come from.” In the part that I remember, I am at a conference with an old acquaintance. She is a proper young woman with high standards and good taste. She says to me […]
Forming a Kingdom in Me
I have been enjoying Ted Loder’s book, Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle, given to me by my friend, Janice. Although it is a book of prayers, it reminds me more of a modern day book of psalms. Each prayer/psalm digs deep into the fertile soil of my soul or breaks open the hard […]
The Healing Power of Memories
Last week at the Children’s Behavioral Health Conference in Tulsa, I taught a seminar entitled “Caring for Your Own Emotional Health While Raising an Emotionally Disturbed Child.” The theme of my presentation was that in order for parents to help their children deal with out-of-control emotions, they must first learn to manage their own emotions […]
The Importance of Pursuing Others
I’ve shared in these posts in the past a bit of my own struggle with church in recent years. I won’t go into any of that again here except to say I have been slow to reconnect with a body of believers. My wife and I have continued to attend a church regularly but […]
Living From a Place of Humility
Yesterday I had the opportunity to lead a session at Oklahoma’s annual Children’s Behavioral Health Conference in Tulsa. My topic had to do with helping parents manage their own emotions while raising an emotionally disturbed child. The room was full of parents struggling to raise some of the most difficult children one can imagine. The […]
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