My youngest child will be a high school junior. His dream is to play college football. After sitting out most of last season due to two concussions, however, and this upcoming season being up in the air thanks to COVID-19, this dream feels more and more tenuous. My middle child is scheduled to move into his freshman dorm in a matter of weeks. He wants nothing more than a normal transition into...
In A Small Book for the Hurting Heart: Meditations on Loss, Grief, and Healing, Paul Tautges offers fifty short devotions filled with messages of help, encouragement, and healing. By biblically and transparently addressing the heart and faith struggles in the midst of this grief, Tautges delves deeply, but gently, into the issues of the heart—presenting encouragement and comfort in the character...
When I talk with people about my work, one of the most common responses is to remember the comfort found in knowing I did everything I could do. I agree there is real comfort in that thought. I owe this competency to all of my patients. Wherever we enter into such critical needs, we owe that competency. But what do we do when that also fails? I remember Mercy. Five months after my first call...
Life doesn’t always go the way we expect it to. Let me rephrase that—life almost never goes the way we expect it to. The year 2020 is proof of that. Life is full of surprises, both good and bad. But God is always good. Reflecting on my life, especially the last fifteen years, God’s goodness in the midst of uncertainty has proven true over and over and over again. As a kid, I had my life...
Have you ever noticed that often when your child is angry that you are working with a short fuse too? That’s the way life goes sometimes. And, right now, in the middle of a pandemic, odds are that frustration and anger are daily struggles for you and your children. Long hours spent together, plans canceled, vacations on hold—that’s the reality for most families in the summer of 2020. Our kids can...
