Whether our sexuality was stolen from us or we gave it away, we experience a loss. But unfortunately many of us don’t allow ourselves to grieve those losses. Psychologists tell us that there are five stages of grieving; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Writing out our life map begins to move us beyond denial to [...]

When something like this happens you can be at a loss for words while at the same time wanting to say so much. 32 people are now dead including the gunman who killed himself. There are stories of classmates locking themselves in rooms, jumping from the third floor, and a professor sacrificing his life for [...]

Not all disappointments are created equal. Tim Horton’s in Canada recently brought back their “Roll Up the Rim” promotion, where by rolling up the rim on your cup of coffee you can win one of millions of free food prizes, or even computers or cars. But more often than not you won’t win anything, and [...]

Comforting friends who have gone through significant hurt or loss is not easy. We want to support and encourage our friends during their time of trial, but often what we say can only make things worse. One of my professors, while teaching a graduate course I took called “Evil & Suffering” (not the most uplifting [...]

Canadian poet Bliss Carmon asked, “was it a year or lives ago?”  I felt a similar shifting of time as I saw the news feeds covering first anniversary of the tragedy at Virginia Tech.  It shocked me that it has been a year already.  How can time move so quickly when for 32 staff and students time [...]

Not sure why you are going through this personal tragedy? Searching for why God is doing this? Take our Life Lesson called “Built By Brokenness” and find some answers that you have been searching for. After losing our twins girls at 20 weeks gestation, my world completely fell apart. As I gingerly attempted to reintegrate [...]

When both US president Barack Obama and Catholic Pope Benedict XVI advise you that your plans are a bad idea, that’s usually a good sign that you should think twice about what you’re doing. Terry Jones would be well advised to listen to their advice. His tiny 30 member group, ironically named the “Dove World [...]

At 19 weeks I gave birth to a little boy.  We named him Jacob.  We said hello and goodbye in the same hour. He is not a miscarriage or an almost-child, he is my son.  This letter was written three years after his birth.  This is a glimpse into my mother’s heart, a letter written [...]

At 19 weeks I gave birth to a little boy.  We named him Jacob.  We said hello and goodbye in the same hour. He is not a miscarriage or an almost-child, he is my son.  This letter was written three years after his birth.  This is a glimpse into my mother’s heart, a letter written [...]

Tonight, a new World Series champion may be crowned. Either the San Francisco Giants will win their first World Series title in 56 years, or the Texas Rangers will prolong the series, which currently sits at 3-1 in the Giants’ favor. (TSN) The situation looks bleak for the Texas Rangers right now, but as I [...]