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Do you have a family “moat?” Reverend Drew Wood of Sugar Land, Texas recently published some thoughts on the family. I was particularly taken by his suggestion that “All parents must create a kind of moat around their home.” His thoughts are as follows (slightly edited by me). “It is incumbent upon husbands and wives,…

Early this morning a series of free flowing thoughts rolled into my consciousness like waves crashing upon the shores of a Pacific island. They rolled in continuously, one after the other.

Out in the hill country near Lake Victoria, there is a vibrant bustling city called Kisumu. It is Kenya’s third largest city.

We all enjoy the stereotypical cowboy movie where the Lone Ranger (or Paladin) charges into the desperados’ hideout, guns blazing, and settles the injustices he has found there. Unfortunately, that approach seldom works well in real life; it usually leaves a few bodies bleeding in the road. Real life is not a cowboy movie! Some…

Earlier this week I watched the movie, Wonder Woman.  That was a bit out of character for me, but the last line of the flick made it worthwhile.  The fictional story is that of an “Amazon” woman, a daughter of Zeus, coming into our world and attempting to stop the carnage of World War I.…

Trauma permanently changes us to the very core. “This is the big, scary truth about trauma: There is no such thing as “getting over it.” The five stages of grief model marks universal stages in learning to accept loss, but the reality is in fact much bigger; a major life disruption leaves a new normal in its wake.  There is no…