As the father of a two and four year old girls, Anna and Elsa are regularly singing in our house. My girls love the shorts, Olaf’s Frozen Adventure and Frozen Fever, but nothing compares to Frozen 2. They let go of the first one because, as my four year old says, it’s better when Anna and Elsa get … [Read more...]
Where Does Pain Come From? (Where is God in the Pain? Pt 3)
One of the great misconceptions is to think when people are suffering that they’re being punished by God. That’s not how He works... at least not now. In the Old Testament we read stories like Noah’s Ark where God flooded the world to start fresh (aka caused a mass genocide), how God erased Sodom … [Read more...]
6 Reasons Why God Can Feel Absent (Where is God in the Pain? Pt 2)
When I was 18 my grandpa passed away. It was my first real taste of death and it hit me hard. During that following Christmas holidays, my brother and I had some of the young adults from our church over. In that group of visitors were a handful of young adults home for the holidays from Calgary … [Read more...]
Where is God in my Pain? (Pt1)
I have recently had a number of people going through some very difficult times ask, “Where is God in my pain?” Considering I’m a therapist, it makes sense I have these types of conversations. It’d be strange if I was a Walmart greeter: “Hi, where do you keep the milk? And where is God in my pain?” … [Read more...]
7 Tips to Help in Tough Times
Life is... something. One minute you think you have everything in control and you feel confident, and the next minute you get a phone call or accident that knocks you on you keister. As a therapist, I’m regularly meeting people who are on their butts because they’ve been knocked down... nothing … [Read more...]
Necessary vs. Unnecessary Suffering
My cat likes to chew ribbon, a snack that has the potential to kill him. That’s a bad life choice. The couple times he was able to get at some they were small enough pieces that they passed through him instead of clogging his intestines... that or he used up one of his nine lives. On the positive … [Read more...]