If you are engaging with AI, and can see the patterns beyond its functionality of giving facts and emotional confirmation, you can also recognize how it creeps into our lives for minimizing, and eventually substituting human connection. AI has crept so seamlessly into our daily life that a chip being inserted into our bodies isn't really the immediate concern if we aren’t actually aware of how it sabotages human connection everyday already.  Many have heard of the horrific extreme stories...

If you’ve read Song of Songs, you are familiar with the Shulamite woman described in this poetic book showing love, passion and union between her and her beloved.  A friend had told me of how much she loved this book because it always showed Jesus wooing her with His love. And that it was a powerful book beyond the literal interpretation of possibly King Solomon and the lustful feelings he had towards one of his many women.  I remember glossing over it once before, but had not been drawn to...

I have done so much inner healing of emotional pain in my life, I never thought I could go deeper.  But with Jesus, it does happen!  He wants us to be free from the burdens we’ve carried.  The healing I experienced in this area of abandonment helped me realize on yet another level of the meaning in scripture, “He came to set the captives free.” Here is some context on how this unfolded.  I returned to live with my mother in the summer of 2024.  She was nearing 86 and though still fairly...