BP23 Humans are hungry. We are hungry for food, for meaning in life, for emotional closeness and love, for sexual intimacy (as opposed to lust). We hunger to belong, to…

BP22 Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you (Proverbs 9:8). Sven was born on a farm in southern…

BP21 I remember my mother’s dying days like they happened last week instead of seven years ago. Several days before she died, I remember pivoting my mother from the commode…

BP20 Years ago, in my practice as a psychologist, I worked with a depressed woman named Anne (not her actual name). She grew up in a family where the old…

BP19 Taylor met her quite serendipitously, some might say. Others would say it was an unholy rendezvous. He had stopped at a restaurant to grab food with his co-workers, a…

BP18 It came out of nowhere for her. Isabelle was five years old when her mother abruptly abandoned the family for her ‘lover’. She left behind a husband and three…

BP17 (a continuation of BP16) Jeff and Amanda dare to enter the Forbidden Forest (FF) later that same night after Amanda’s summoning by the Bright One. They make their way…

BP16 Amanda grew up on a hobby farm and loved every minute of it—especially her horses. The only cloud that drifted across the azure-blue skies of her childhood was the…

BP 15 The essential component of evil is not the absence of a sense of sin or imperfection but the unwillingness to tolerate that sense. At one and the same…

BP14 A predominant characteristic . . . of the behavior of those I call evil is scapegoating. Because in their hearts they consider themselves above reproach, they must lash out…