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How to Have a Stress Free Christmas
Snowflakes flutter to the ground like miniature feathers from the winter sky. Even the rush of nearby traffic is muffled, and the Colorado landscape appears to rest. Gnarled cottonwoods curve along the creek bed, branches lifted heavenward in silent adoration of their...
Finding Hope in Loneliness
She is the elderly woman in the polyester suit sitting alone in the church pew week after week or the frazzled young mother in the grocery aisle juggling a wailing infant and impatient toddler. She might be the middle-aged divorcee’ who envies every couple in a...
Wandering in the Wilderness
The sleek feel of wood pressed against my knees as unintelligible words spilled haphazard and desperate from a shattered heart. Miniature puddles dotted the floor's surface--a testimony of tears pock-marking shiny laminate. I'd been wandering in the wilderness, but it...
Breaking the Chains of Unforgiveness
My heart didn’t want to believe the painful truth of the words he spoke. Not my child. Not this unbearable, unthinkable trespassing of an innocent soul. I felt rage swelling in my chest against the one who had caused all of this—a malevolent, murderous rage born of...
Breaking the Chains of Familial Bondage
I didn’t know her, but the vulnerable thoughts she’d penned pierced my heart. I realized where I was stuck. I was stuck in jealousy--wanting the childhood she had. Wanting. Wishing. But, not having. She spoke of jealousy, but what I heard in those words? Grief....
Breaking the Chains of Depression
The high-pitched whirring of the car matched the acceleration of my heart, a rapid ta-tunk, ta-tunk, ta-tunk as I pressed the accelerator. Thoughts ricocheted in my mind, rapid-fire like a motorized, ball-pitching machine. They'd be better off without me. This hurting...
Breaking the Chains of Fear
My son’s pint-sized body huddled beneath the bed covers as if the thin cotton cover could shield him from any enemy. Since his father had deployed to Afghanistan, Seth’s fear had transformed into something destructive. An ever-growing-never-contained-despair rooted in...
