December's song of obsession (and my life's anthem):
In Deuteronomy 7, Moses gives the Israelites instructions for entering the Promised Land. Since the original promise made to Abraham in Genesis, through their 400+ year enslavement in Egypt, and 40-year wilderness jaunt, the Israelites have long anticipated this climactic moment. This is what God had promised, and what he’d been preparing them for...
I know it’s a couple of days late, but please click the following link, A Praiseworthy King, to check out my contribution to FPU’s 2016 "Calling All Peace-Builders" Advent Devotional. It’s on page 22.
During my junior year of college, I interned at Shriners Hospital in Sacramento. At the time, I wanted to be a Child Life Specialist (Child Life Specialist) and did my internship in this department.
Shriners specializes in treating children with severe burns (among other things) and my duties included reading to, playing with, and checking up on, several children that had third degree burns over 90% of their body...
Emotional (aka, soul) work is the hardest work an individual will ever do (at least in my non-professional opinion).
In fact, it flat out sucks.
However, it’s always worth it...