Sanity – You WILL Lose It
Here’s a heads up. If you don’t already know this, you probably should… You are going to lose it. Yep. It’s pretty much guaranteed. It may come during a global move or in the throes of culture-shock, in the thick of re-entry, or in the middle of a hard and unexpected season of your cross-cultural […]
My Secret’s Out
Shame will do that to you. Shame will keep you quiet. “How was your summer?” she asks. “Oh, it was good, busy.” Shame will have you keeping secrets you never intended to keep. It will have you hiding your struggles, even while you encourage others to share theirs. You all know I’ve intentionally set the tone […]
Are You Happy? The Challenges Of Being Real
“Are you happy?” she asked as she dumped rice into the folded banana leaves. I assume she must have heard me crying. She is here for the holidays and the making and selling of “bread” made from mung beans, sticky rice, and pork. She loves to take a break under the jackfruit tree that is […]
Shame: The Clinging Black Web
In the 2007 movie Spider-Man 3, there is a vivid picture of how darkness can overtake us. Tobey Macguire’s character, Peter Parker, is vengeful and angry about his uncle’s death and this alien symbiote attaches to Peter during his sleep and brings out his dark side. After realizing later that the symbiote costume is changing […]
3 Truths for When Shame Threatens to Derail
John 18 tells of all the times when Peter denied Jesus. Not super moves on his part and not anything Peter was proud of. He clearly felt the weight of his betrayal and decided his best course of action was to go back to fishing. He was done with this “fisher of men” thing. He […]