Family leadership can be a messy business. Take the case of Judah who came up with a messy plan to save his brother Joseph from gruesome death at the hands of his brothers: “And Judah said unto his brothers: What profit is it if we slay our...
Enabling parents with troubled adult children live either smack-dab in the middle of a crisis, or we’re simply in between crises, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Every time the phone rings at night we are catapulted to a place of despair. Will it...
The last few years have been memorable for my family. Sharon and I have been blessed by two thundering little toddlers, and a very special eight-year-old grandson. The eight-year-old is very smart, even brilliant learning how to put together and take apart computers. The two...
HOLOCAUST: “(1)…a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering….; (2) the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II….” (definition of “holocaust” by Dictionary.com) BURNT: definition of the word “burnt” (Hebrew Olah) in the term “burnt offering” and it’s equivalent...
To the Jews, arriving at the sea of Reeds (The Red Sea), all of creation became a symphony, a song, because they, “in the blink of an eye” understood how every unrelated and incomprehensible event in their lives suddenly became a miraculously part of this...
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9). As we walk the journey to set healthy boundaries and find sanity in challenging relationships with troubled adult children, I...