The 2020 Pandemic Exposed My Weaknesses, Defenses, Strengths, and Potential

Not unlike most of the world, 2020 threw me into a tailspin and exposed a shadow side I was unaware of. My last post was a tribute to turning 50, where the future was my to possess. Little did I know four weeks later, everyone's world would be turned upside down. And I would see just how emotionally unhealthy I really was.
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A Letter to My 8-Year-Old Self

You'll spend a lot of your life feeling like you don't fit in. Most of the time, you'll believe it's because you're not enough, and then you'll swing to you're just too much. Somewhere along the way, you'll lose yourself, but you'll discover her again. You will actually fall in love with her, and fitting in won't seem to be that big of a deal. But it will suck that the revelation comes so much later in life.

The Gift Of Friendship

In just a couple days we will be unwrapping gifts, and in a few months most of them will lose our attention as their luster fades. Some gifts will be returned while others tossed in a closest. However, there is one gift that seems to hold…

SORROW: Is It Possible To Make Sense Of What Is Senseless?

Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 Why didn’t God do anything? Why those children? Why that town? Why that school? Why those families? If God is all-powerful, all knowing, and ever-present, then where was…