Quick answer: Many people carry their darkest struggles alone for years, surrounded by people who know about them but have never come close enough to truly know them. Healing begins when someone is willing to meet you at your “coal face”: to listen without fixing, to see past the […]
A Wellness Path
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For anyone carrying tears that won’t come. Quick answer: Not being able to cry while grieving is common. Shock, exhaustion, the pressure to keep functioning, and the fear of never stopping once you start can all build an inner “dam wall.” You haven’t failed. Isaiah 25 pictures God wiping the […]
On the farm I grew up on, a road ran along the boundary. Part of the roadside had slipped away, but the fence still stood, and everyone could see where the road ended and our property began. One day my father came home and told us someone had dumped rubbish […]
I could see it beginning to happen — the early warning signs that he was heading back into his old patterns. His addiction pathway was so deeply worn into his brain that it turned his head like a magnet snapping into place. (It’s one reason why habits are so hard […]
Words spoken can become sentences we carry. Verdicts we live inside. Discover how faith rewrites generational trauma. Jump to: What Is a “Sentence”? Generational Trauma Isn’t Just Personal — It’s Cultural Where Faith Meets Generational Trauma How to Break the Cycle: Trace It, Face It, Replace It You Are Not […]
There are some words that, when you say them, carry a power or energy behind them. They trigger a response. I often hear the sentence “I’m not religious, but …” and immediately I know what the person is saying. Well, I think I do. They have the word “religion” loaded […]
There are things about me that I don’t want others to see. In fact, I probably don’t want to see them myself. There is a resistance to go “there,” but I have a good shepherd who keeps calling me back to an ancient path intersection. A place where there is […]
I was brought up on a sheep farm, and one of the most fascinating features of that farm was the tracks the sheep made across the paddocks. Right in the middle of a field, you’d find this narrow, well-worn path — pressed down by hundreds of hooves, over and over, […]
Escape tick-box prayer and comparisonitis. Discover the ancient path that invites you to pray more and do less. We do like to get things done, don’t we? It feels satisfying to cross things off a list, to put a tick next to that item. I use paper and pen for […]
Feeling worse before better? Discover the ancient path of down before up. I once saw this very funny cartoon. The first image showed a nice ‘up and to the right’ graph displaying how we think life should work. Progress, easy, smooth, success and without any struggle or challenge. The next […]