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Definitions: “To put or to bring back to an earlier or original state” Fascinating, right? So if we are talking about personal restoration, the definition would suggest that we are being put back to “an earlier or original state.” Does this mean our goal is to get back to the garden? Back to God’s original…

Why? Why do humans respond to truth in such a way? We seek truth, we claim to be willing to climb the highest mountain or swim the deepest sea to find truth. But when we find it, we first ridicule it. Then we violently oppose it, and finally accept it as being self evident.  This…

Over the next few months I really would like to focus on intimate relationships in the gloriously human condition. So just a word of clarity before we begin. I believe that every relationship we have in life needs to have a degree of intimacy. I don’t believe there is a border wall between those that…

Retirement is such an odd dynamic in life. Just the word implies static, lack of movement and retreat. Many in this time of life invest a tremendous amount of energy moving backward in life. Resentment, regret, and life hurts dominate and sap their energy and ravage their bodies. Life by design is dynamic, moving forward…

My gloriously human condition is ever-changing. Six months ago I accepted an invitation from a couple who are potentially my best friends on the planet.  They invited me to visit them in their vacation home in Tucson for a couple of days. Having lived in Seattle for the past 25 years I thought my body…

Have you ever caught yourself saying or doing some thing and then pausing to make sure that you believe it is what you really wanted to do or say? As I age, I find myself doing this more and more and I’m pretty happy about it. That pause, see what I just did there? Commas…

Anyone who has experienced being grown-up for even one day understands how overrated it is. I know all of us probably spent a lot of our childhood’s wishing we were an adult. Whether it was because our circumstances were unbearable as a child, or we simply thought the accoutrements of adulthood were too enticing. Most…

Our wonky culture has a tendency to create great confusion about what our goal in marriage is. Very often the message is that marriage exists primarily to meet our needs and to make us happy. As I have observed hundreds of marriages very closely in my office in marriage counseling it has become clear to…

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 Why? Why would a transcendent being care to even trouble himself with us problematic humans? And if this is…

Fear has many faces. Generalized anxiety, panic attacks, self protective behaviors, isolation, and control to mention a few. We feel it without even feeling it. It influences us even when are unaware of his presence. It is everywhere in our lives, and in our world. It’s malevolent presence affects nearly everything we do in someway.…