“Hope deferred, makes a heart sick. But a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 When something you hope for keeps getting pushed into the future, heart sickness can set in. Depression. Despair. Cynicism. The opposite happens when your longing is fulfilled. Joy. Life. Gratitude. If...
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Without Friday, Easter Sunday doesn't make sense. Like a punch line without a joke, it falls flat. Without Sunday, Good Friday isn't that good. It's a tragic ending that confirms the futility and finality of death. Together, they are the good news story we all need. Many...
ADVENT: Opening the gifts of Hope, Peace, Joy & Love "God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is...
I had hoped COVID would be over the day after the election like many people had told me. Everyone hoped their guy would win in a landslide. We have all been setting our hopes on the end of this year as if the calendar is...
You hoped your guy would win. At least you wanted a clear outcome. The only thing clear from the election is that we are split down the middle. Your neighbor, your friend, your sister and your spouse see things differently than you. So now what...
This has been a year of shaking. A pandemic, protests and a divisive political season have upended our lives this year. The economy is a roller coaster ride. Guidance from experts is contradictory, confusing and constantly changing. It's hard to know what to believe, who to...
By: Katrina Harris, M.A., LMFT & Andrea Lundeen, M.A., AMFT Anybody feel that life suddenly became an involuntary game of 52 card pick up? What was business as usual has become a wave of change, loss, fear, separation, uncertainty and feeling like things are out of...
I have tried to write this blog a hundred different ways but everything seems trite in the face of death and loss. This week we lost a core member of church family. Brendan Wakeling grew up in our church. His parents, Dave and Julianna have...
How do you sustain lasting change beyond fad diets and New Years resolutions? How do you sustain faith after certainty? How do you sustain your relationships when people hurt or disappoint you? How do you sustain hope for the future when the world seems to be falling apart? There...
