Digging up the Root of Anger
Anger. We all feel it to one extent or another. We’ve all experienced it as a reaction to circumstances or how people treat us in different situations. Most times, we even believe we’re justified for feeling angry because we think we have the right to feel that way, especially...
The Anchor of Our Hope
I’m watching a train wreck. I’m watching, not with the macabre fascination that we generally have toward calamities, but in near panic and bewilderment. It’s not a YouTube of some random wreck that I can gasp at in surprise while being secretly entertained. No, this train wreck is close...
The Masks We Hide Behind
When Executive Order 63 was enacted here in the Commonwealth of Virginia at the end of May as part of the plan to begin opening back up after all of the pandemic craziness, there was a section I was extremely ticked off about. It was the part that made...
This Week’s Top 10 Happy List
When all you see in the news these days is story after story of mayhem, violence, murder, destruction, injustice, fear, and complete pandemonium, it can be overwhelming, discouraging, and stressful. Quite frankly, I’m over it. It makes me sick to my stomach. We can’t ignore the bad, but if...
A Season of New Beginnings
Life is cyclical. Each season of life brings new hopes, expectations, challenges, and growth. “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”[1] The past several weeks have been a season of new beginnings for me. After voluntarily resigning from my position as a...