Healing Requires Openness

Self-devastated people are often initially quiet; it hurts too much to air the sordid details. But healing cannot come without it.

Phone Blunder

Early one Sunday morning I was awakened by the telephone. Thinking it was my son playing a joke on me, I picked up the receiver. In a hoarse whisper, ...

Inevitable Error

Error is the inevitable consequence of living.

Mutual error is the inevitable consequence of living together.

Argument or faultfinding is the defensive ...

Healing in Weakness

We live in a world full of people struggling to be, or at least to appear, strong in order not to be weak; and we follow a gospel which says that when ...

Making the Sickroom Bearable

Browsing in a London bookstore last summer, I ran across a little volume by Mrs. Leslie Stevens, called Notes from Sickrooms. It was a volume of instructions ...

The True Healing

I have prayed hundreds, if not thousands, of times for the Lord to heal me--and he finally healed me of the need to be healed.

Surrendered to His Mercy

I recently read a story by a woman who said that as a girl she was poor. She said, "I grew up in a cold water flat, but I married a man who had money. ...

Time Change

Time heals grief and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. It is ...

Great Therapy

Karl Menninger, the [late] psychiatrist, was asked what someone should do who feels on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His advice? "Lock your house, ...

He Counts the Hair on Your Head

One night my 11-year-old daughter Eva noticed I was distracted as I tucked her in to bed. I told her about a friend's teenage daughter whose hair ...