Tag: Addiction

Brain Ninjas

Our life drastically changed course a week ago. We are the parents of a daughter who has struggled for many years with substance abuse. We dread “the call.”   The call is when you are told that your child has died, and their struggle has ended. One week ago, our phone rang in the early hours

Is Jesus At Church?

Yesterday the church I attend was broken into. I started asking the typical safety and security questions, “Was anyone hurt?”  (No.) “How did they get in?”  (In military terms – ‘a soft perimeter.’)  That led to the more important questions, “Who was it? What did they want?”  The short answers were, “A meth addict. Money,