I have spent the past four years grieving that which I have felt robbed of. I have spent many hours mourning that loss. The anguish. The...

I have a quote by Brene Brown that I like that says stay awkward, brave and kind. I am an awkward person. I have almost always felt...

I cannot control what happens in the world around me. But I can control how I respond to what is happening around me. Well, that is what...

This Covid-19 pandemic has produced widespread fear and anxiety. The atmosphere is saturated with it. The thing is when people are...

If we're going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. - Brene Brown We...

Vulnerability. That word may produce a myriad of thoughts and feelings in the person who reads it, or hears it. I know that often what...

“When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what...

Each time you experience a loss it is important to grieve the loss. The degree of grief will be proportional to the size of the loss....

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main... From No Man Is An Island by John Donne...

I remember a period when it seemed to be common for me to hear christians saying: “You can’t trust a depressed christian.” It must have...

There is a particular worldview that we live in a dog eat dog world. This is a world of dominate or be dominated, crush or be crushed,...

In a Harvard Health Publishing newsletter, gratitude was explained as such; The word gratitude is derived from the Latin word gratia,...

I believe in hope. Even though I find hope to be both dangerous and beautiful. Now I know that may seem like an odd sentence. How can...

We all hope for miracles - some big, some small. Some so seemingly insignificant to us that we don't bother mentioning.  Some impossible,...

When life hits you hard, you go looking for answers. As a christian I looked for answers starting in my own stream. I found that there...

I am of both Pakeha and Maori descent. A product of New Zealand’s high rate of interracial relationships. And yet many still hold to an...

The church is often referred to as the hands and feet of Jesus. But what happens when those hands of Jesus cause people to hurt? People...

There are so many unanswered questions faith and spirituality fail to satisfy. It doesn’t help that many of our questions revolve around...

Depression is much like a hunter. It quietly stalks its prey under camouflage. You often don’t know it has been stalking you until it is...

That is a tricky question. I always hated having to answer that question. What do you mean? Do you want to know what I do for a job?...