Remember that scene from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast where Belle sings, “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell”? Instantly, some shout, “YES!” excited by possibilities that lie ahead, what they get to explore, the new...
Many years ago, I got a flyer in the mail advertising a “come check us out” graduate program at a local college. My husband and I had discussed my going back to graduate school a couple of years earlier when we lived in Chicago. The timing just didn’t seem right....
This past fall I had the wonderful opportunity to sit with a dear friend that I have not spent much time with lately. She conveyed the exhaustion she was experiencing in her life and how that was starting to prevent her from being present in the lives of her family...
I was sitting with a colleague of mine the other day discussing the number of couples that walk in and through our doors looking to either divorce or improve their marriage. As we generally discussed this, we discovered that there have been several who acted as if...
Grief & loss are two of those things in our world that does not discriminate. It chooses its victims at random and without warning. Maybe you can relate to some of these scenarios: Susy lost her husband last week to cancer. They were married 35 years and have 4...
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to listen to a great author and speaker, John Ortberg, at a conference. He spoke about the three days of the death of Christ. Actually, he spoke more about the second day, the day where everything was still, quiet, dark. He...
