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"Shalom": Finding Peace Through Disappointment and Shame
Isolated. Alone. Drunk and/or stoned. This was a regular way of life for me for quite some time. It was my best solution to distance myself from the people who loved me most, while at the same time distancing myself from the constant disappointment that I brought to...
Driving Miss Dorothy
I write this amidst the serenity of the Prince of Peace Abbey monastery in Oceanside, CA. My eyelids feel a bit heavier than usual this evening, seemingly bearing the weight and pressure of some emotional exhaustion. A dear friend, Dorothy Byrne, who passed away on...
Pause, Process, and Invite God: How to Practically Live out Spiritual Buzzwords
It’s that decisive moment when your internal temperature raises a few degrees. Maybe it’s that moment when you feel like you’ve lost all freedom and your reaction is completely out of your control. It’s the moment when reaching for your “drug” of choice becomes...
Five Lessons From Saint Monica to Help You Love a Suffering Addict/Alcoholic
Most, if not all, people deal with the difficulty of loving someone when it seems like the most difficult thing to possibly do. Loving a suffering addict—whether they struggle with alcohol, drugs, lust, gambling, financial infidelity, eating, etc... is costly. It...
Prayer: How Do You Pray?
There was once a day when the best prayer I had in my arsenal was more or less a negotiation tactic. A bargaining with God, you could say. “God, if you get me out of this mess, I promise to be a good boy,” was more or less the deal I was willing to make when I found...
Choosing Life Over Death
Have you ever been baffled by the choice of a person you love to resort back to the source of their pain to relieve their pain? Have you ever found yourself in a spot where you couldn’t delineate the difference between your problem and your solution? Whether you’ve...
The Happiness of Pursuit
Nearly 2,000 years ago a carpenter from Bethlehem sat in front of a large crowd of people on a mountainside and had a lot to say. He began his share by stating: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3) To be poor in spirit...
My Name is Scott — I’m an Alcoholic
I took my first drink on a late evening in May, 2002. I was 17 years old. “Don’t think so much about how it’s going to taste, but think about how good it will make you feel,” was the instruction I was given while walking along a set of abandoned train tracks, my...
"Shalom": Finding Peace Through Disappointment and Shame
Isolated. Alone. Drunk and/or stoned. This was a regular way of life for me for quite some time. It was my best solution to distance myself from the people who loved me most, while at the same time distancing myself from the constant disappointment that I brought to...
Driving Miss Dorothy
I write this amidst the serenity of the Prince of Peace Abbey monastery in Oceanside, CA. My eyelids feel a bit heavier than usual this evening, seemingly bearing the weight and pressure of some emotional exhaustion. A dear friend, Dorothy Byrne, who passed away on...
Pause, Process, and Invite God: How to Practically Live out Spiritual Buzzwords
It’s that decisive moment when your internal temperature raises a few degrees. Maybe it’s that moment when you feel like you’ve lost all freedom and your reaction is completely out of your control. It’s the moment when reaching for your “drug” of choice becomes...
Five Lessons From Saint Monica to Help You Love a Suffering Addict/Alcoholic
Most, if not all, people deal with the difficulty of loving someone when it seems like the most difficult thing to possibly do. Loving a suffering addict—whether they struggle with alcohol, drugs, lust, gambling, financial infidelity, eating, etc... is costly. It...
Prayer: How Do You Pray?
There was once a day when the best prayer I had in my arsenal was more or less a negotiation tactic. A bargaining with God, you could say. “God, if you get me out of this mess, I promise to be a good boy,” was more or less the deal I was willing to make when I found...
Choosing Life Over Death
Have you ever been baffled by the choice of a person you love to resort back to the source of their pain to relieve their pain? Have you ever found yourself in a spot where you couldn’t delineate the difference between your problem and your solution? Whether you’ve...
The Happiness of Pursuit
Nearly 2,000 years ago a carpenter from Bethlehem sat in front of a large crowd of people on a mountainside and had a lot to say. He began his share by stating: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3) To be poor in spirit...
My Name is Scott — I’m an Alcoholic
I took my first drink on a late evening in May, 2002. I was 17 years old. “Don’t think so much about how it’s going to taste, but think about how good it will make you feel,” was the instruction I was given while walking along a set of abandoned train tracks, my...