What does it mean to listen? How do you know when someone is listening to you? Or when you are listening to someone else? There seems to be a distinction between simply hearing someone and actually listening to what they are saying. When it comes to communication, we know that there is so much … [Read more...]

One of the most common sentiments parents and caregivers hear from kids is that they cannot wait to be out on their own and making their own rules. It is almost as if they believe that, once they are living by themselves, they will be relieved of all the responsibilities and expectations they had … [Read more...]

There has been a lot of talk recently about the need to find a “new normal”. With everyone living in uncertainty, it is understandable that people would long for what they had before. But the problem is that there is no such thing as “normal”. The idea of normal is subjective to each individual’s … [Read more...]

We are very thankful for those of you who have checked in on us and have been praying for the Children’s Home during this challenging time-we know that it is a challenging time for everyone! With the exception of having nowhere to go and not being able to enjoy our big campus family meals, our jobs … [Read more...]

Most definitions of the term ‘crisis’ include something about reaching a pivotal moment, a turning point, for change. But those definitions leave a little something to be desired in conveying what it feels like to be in the middle of a crisis. Nowhere in the official definitions is it expressed how … [Read more...]