Tag: hope
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Unanswered Prayers: Part 2
Continued From Last Week WHY AM I STILL ANGRY? Now, two weeks after my book launch, I’ve had the luxury of asking myself the question: Why, exactly, am I angry with God? Why am I still experiencing negative emotions about those unanswered prayers? Why does it still bother me that my books didn’t arrive when…
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A Season of Grief
If you’ve been paying close attention to my life, you may have noticed that I’ve been to quite a few funerals lately. My therapist said it elegantly earlier this week: “There seems to be a lot of death around you.” It seems I am simply in a season of grief – both my own and…
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Hold Onto Hope
I’ve been thinking a lot about hope lately, and how easy it is to lose it. It seems to me that at least 80% of every negative behavior or thought I have is a result of losing hope. When I’m on a specific meal plan, I do well when I feel hopeful. But when I…
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The Edge of a Precipice
“It is said that despite its many glaring (and occasionally fatal) inaccuracies, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy itself has outsold the Encyclopedia Galactica because it is slightly cheaper, and because it has the words ‘DON’T PANIC’ in large, friendly letters on the cover.” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” by Douglass Adams Y’all, the earth is a crazy…
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Guest Blog: Somewhere to Land
This guest blogger is a woman of prayer, a spiritual director, a mother, grandmother, observer of nature, and caretaker of souls. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a post by the the woman who raised me: Lucky Jane. July 14, 2016. 10:00 p.m. I stand at the kitchen sink washing dishes, in a state of…