There are more than seven risk factors, but I just want to elaborate on these for American families. In third world countries the main risk for child sex trafficking is family poverty, which affects the US too, but in different ways.Poverty is a problem in...
What does it mean to win when communicating? I think it means successfully conveying the information necessary to create positive outcomes for all parties involved. I think most people want to make progress, because we value people. Those of us who have been abused might...
Skip Murphy asked me if I thought we were at a tipping point of the country moving over to the pro-life position during an interview last week. He noted the CMP videos and the ensuing social media commotion.The main stream media is largely ignoring the...
Sometimes we are impatient. For those of us who have suffered abuse, getting free from our abuser isn't an event, but a process.If you were in a situation that was a one-off, week long relationship that turned badly very fast, you can have lingering effects....
With all the intense debate about Planned Parenthood selling the body parts of the babies they kill, there have been a lot of attacks on what it means to be pro-life. As a Board member on numerous pro-life organizations, I get to see a few...
While that may be true during abuse or with a really bad headache, it is not true during your healing process from traumatic loss or abuse.It is like a tape that played in my head for so many years. I knew that if I cried,...
I really believe reading and hearing teaching from the Bible every day is ultra important, but I live in the real world too. When I had two babies, a job and a house to take care of, I took one small passage of the Bible...
We are definitely living in the age spoken of in the Book of Daniel. The explosion of knowledge is upon us. We have access to know anything one could imagine. This is good and bad.Obviously, the imagination of our Creator is a wonderful thing. He...
When we look into a pool of water, we see a reflection of reality. If the water is disturbed, the reflection will be distorted and inaccurate. If the water is peaceful and calm, we may see a pretty good representation of the truth, but it...
You and I have a choice everyday. We choose life or death, blessing or cursing.We choose our thoughts. We choose our words. We choose our actions. These choices flow from our spirits. We are spiritual beings. We have a mind and we live in a...