The We Are The World campaign worked on me as a kindergartener. I listened to that Michael Jackson song, learned how to reduce-reuse-recycle and put the eyes of shame on anyone who littered. We are the world We are the children We are the ones to make a brighter day, so let's start giving. I have taken my job to steward the earth seriously. I recently paid Office Depot $8.23 just to give back a ten-year-old phone, in the hopes that it would be taken apart responsibly, rather

Last week I went on vacation with four women I didn't know. I piggy-backed on the already-planned trip, invited by a good friend whom I trust. All six of us are therapists, which set the tone for emotional safety, calmness, real-world discussions, and don't-take-yourself-too-seriously humor. I was so thankful for the new friendships with other professionals I quickly learned to respect. They would offhandedly ask some deep question about our personal lives, then turn around a

Intimacy is the experience of knowing and being deeply known. I can't talk about this without also talking about my experience with the Creator. As a baby initially has no concept of self until it is related to by a parent, neither have I been able to really know myself until I was met eye-to-eye by my Creator. Once I felt seen and loved as I was, I began to understand my value. Once that happened, I started to recognize the value of others. None of that could have happened o

Sometimes I have a very hard time claiming Christianity. Not because I am embarrassed about following Jesus, but because I am embarrassed by the PR of Christians as a group. There are some of you I love to identify with--those of you out there fighting for good things in big and small ways. But then I see the name of Christ being commandeered for political or national prowess. Or I watch people proud to call themselves Christians publicly, but appear to have no concern for th