Are You Angry at God and Don’t Know It?
I have a client who lost her baby in the womb. They were going to name her Evangeline, which means “bearer of good news”. Except, there was no good news delivered at the hospital when the doctors determined little Evangeline had died inside her mom.She and...
Living in Heaven or Hell on Earth
Last night I had a dream that I died and went to Heaven. Only, I was exactly where I am right now, on Earth. My life is exactly the same, the world is exactly the same, people are exactly the same. COVID-19 craziness, political and social unrest, chaos and disorder,...
How to Root Yourself in God
It’s times like these when I find myself rooting deeper into God. While, personally, I’m really enjoying this COVID-19 lock-down, I know many others are having an intensely difficult time. As I coach my clients, I hear stories of suffering, fear, confusion...
How to build a relationship with God
I don't know about you, but I didn’t always have a good relationship with God. There were times in my life when I didn’t believe in Him, and even times when I hated Him. I remember my “dark decade of the soul” in my late teens and early twenties, a span of...
How to Find God at Your Soul-Sucking Job
In my late twenties, I worked at a small, independent film production company that made me feel dead inside. It was a soul-crushing job. My boss was a narcissistic egomaniac who had angry outbursts nearly every week and would throw staplers across the...
“Where is God during a tragedy?”
My family and I recently experienced a tragic event when my stepdaughter’s highschool was the target of an active shooter last week. A 16 year old boy, on his birthday, decided to open fire on the school’s campus, shooting 5 students before turning the gun...
Waiting for your one big life-changing aha moment?
I was having a conversation with a dear friend yesterday and tears poured out of her as she told me how deeply she longed to be in a relationship. I've known her for over 20 years and for the past 15 years, she's been single. She's had short flings here...
What I Know About God
Sometimes I sit and stare at a blank screen. I feel the urge to write, yet the words lie dormant. My fingers stand firm on their assigned keys like pawns on a chess board... alert, ready, waiting for the first move. The cursor blinks, waiting… waiting…...
Angry at God for those difficult times when He abandoned you?
This is a transcript from a heated, raw and brutally honest conversation I had with God quite a few years ago. I didn’t realize how angry I was (and had been since childhood) until it unexpectedly came out in this session. I didn't even know I was angry...
How to Deepen Your Relationship with God
What does it mean to “deepen your relationship with God”? Is there a moment, perhaps after enough prayer, obedience or study, that we receive a certificate of achievement for having finally arrived at a deepened relationship with God? Of course not. Yet,...