“I am completely over getting more ‘stuff’ and to be honest, I don’t want to have to do more either. Yet I long for MORE. I know that sounds crazy but please don’t give me a diagnosis! I just want to...
What Are You Taking to the Grave? “You’ll think I’m crazy when I tell you this but please hear me out. I have plenty of money to retire on. We’ve been living in our ‘forever home’ that my wife...
“Something’s just not working. My life just isn’t firing on all cylinders. I don’t really know how to say what I’m trying to say I didn’t think this is where I’d be at this point in my life. Should I...
“I’m tired of settling. A house in a neighborhood I don’t really love. A job that bores me. A marriage that’s good. We go to church. We taxi our kids to their sports. Nothing bad in my life but...
“I swear… if my wife and I survive this ministry trauma, I’m going to make every church I ever speak in trauma-informed.” He leaned forward as he said it, emotion...
“I just can’t understand… if God really cared about me… why would He have allowed this to happen?” In more than 30 years of sitting with broken hearts, I’ve heard...
“I’m afraid I’m one of those ministries that has traumatized people.” She sent that in a vulnerable text message. I called her immediately. She has been a tremendous blessing...
“I guess I’m not sure who got traumatized by ministry was it my dad? Or was it me because he was my pastor?” “Perhaps it was both.” Her tears confirmed it was likely...
“I come from three generations of pastors. I’ve never known anything else. So I don’t even know what to do with myself when I get up in the morning. I thought I had all the answers...
