recovery

To Bless or Blast

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So, someone you love has made a mistake.  And not a little one like locking their keys in the car or forgetting to roll the trash to the street on collection day or coming home with a kitten.  I mean a life-altering, reputation killing, soul crushing failure.  The kind of mistake that requires modifiers like epic or monumental or even monstrous.  The kind of mistake that leaves scars and breaks hearts and changes everything.  What do you say to someone who is responsible for that kind of catastrophe?  Ancient Israel managed to jack-knife a truckload of chaos more than once.  … Read more…

Better Than Perfect

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If you quit going to church or gave up on prayer or, in some other way, backed away from this whole God thing because you failed in some really spectacular way and you just don’t feel comfortable being around all the “good” people any more, you need to know this story.  But if you feel pretty confident about where you are spiritually, if you often think, “Well, at least I didn’t (fill in the blank with whatever sin you haven’t committed)”, then you really need to know this story. Six centuries ago, a Japanese Shogun named Ashikaga Yoshimasa unwrapped a … Read more…