My disability is not a lesson sent by God There is a less than helpful belief that still shows up in church spaces, spoken or unspoken: that God sends disability, sickness, or hardship to teach us a lesson. It might sound spiritual on the surface, but underneath it paints God as an abusive parent. That […]
Healing
Kintsugi Healing: Healed Scars Tell His Story
Kintsugi – the Japanese art of taking broken or cracked pottery and turning flaws into beauty. It takes about three months to repair a ceramic piece with kintsugi because of the slow curing time of urushi lacquer. Kintsugi is only applied to the most precious ceramics, or those carrying deep sentimental value. The process is […]
Forgiveness is Key to Emotional Freedom
“How do we forgive deep hurt? A good piece of advice I can give you is this: Immediately forgive the person who says or does something against you. Then the devil has no chance of letting a shadow remain in your heart.” — Corrie ten Boom Tante Corrie’s wisdom was born out of a lifetime of […]
Stop the Blame Game When It Comes To Healing
I am disabled and have been since childhood. I also believe God heals today. One of my pet peeves is a person who holds a belief system that chastises others for using certain words to describe themselves. I do not believe I am cursing myself by stating I am disabled. It is not my identity; […]
What’s Lurking Behind Your Wall?
I live in a high rise building with 225 suites. Today, the water is shut off in the whole building while the plumbers fix a problem. The problem was lurking in a wall in my bathroom for what appears to be months, if not years. If you looked closely at the pipe, you’d see that […]
Is it Time to Unmask Yourself?
It’s July 2021, and Canadians are emerging out of an almost two year period of wearing masks everywhere we went. We are relishing our freedom. But today, I want to talk about a different type of mask. I wrote the following piece over 27 years ago when I was in the beginning stages of healing […]