When my four girls were small, my Mother lived with us for a while. One time the kids were concerned about my Mom, their grandmother, dying. She told them a sweet story. She said, “I love being alive. It is like living in a two story house. There is a party on the first floor. … More Heaven
Years ago, I was in a very low place in my family life, in my professional life and in my spiritual life. At that time I met a man at church whose name was Warren. I liked what I heard him saying when he gave devotionals. He seemed very bright, articulate, informed, and sensitive. I … More My Imaginatiom
The doctrine of original sin teaches that man is by nature totally sinful, and without redeeming qualities. I think that Original Sin is a particularly unbiblical idea. According to Genesis, man is made in the image of God not in the image of some evil creature, that is fundamentally flawed. Therefore, I am not an … More The Lie of Original Sin
A Truly Merry Christmas…..Said by an Al-Anon member just before Christmas: “Someone should find Norman Rockwell’s body and put a stake through his heart.” My Christmas will not be what Rockwell says it should be. It will be what it is and within what it is there will be much for which I can be … More Merry Christmas
There is a huge difference between feeling loved and feeling I am lovable. If I have to have your love to feel I am OK then I tend to be a people pleaser. My neediness gobbles down the love and praise from you and then I have to look for more. I have to have my … More Free to Love
The word LISTEN has the same letters as Silent. You are not alone…🔽
When I was CEO at union Rescue Mission in L.A. I had a globe of the world in my office. I had taken the globe apart and put it back together again upside down so the South pole was on the top.I liked doing that because it upset some people and that gave me the … More When My World Turns upside Down
If you were to ask me “When you say God is faithful what do you mean? I would say God is reliable, on my side, always loving, comes through for me and so on. I have asked groups I was leading the same question and have gotten much the same answer. If I ask what … More A Truly Faithful Wife
If I was hearing the phrase mind your own business for the first time w/o any associations I would think it meant take care off your own affairs.If I was hearing the slogan” Live and let live” for the first time” I would understand that it is a wise and wonderful suggestion to really be … More Living Life
George Caywood 