Journals

Welcome to the Salt of The Earth blog of the teachings of Christ through everyday experiences, challenges, blessings, and testimonials

Blood Drop

That day encoded itself in my memory as an example of why trauma nursing doesn’t only refer to the patient’s trauma. It's a shared experience to everyone involved, like a bomb explosion, affecting first responders who initiate resuscitation efforts – they witness the...

The Valley of Achor

Here she lays in the dragon’s lair overcome with spirit shrunk back and ashamed of her cowardice. She's shell shocked because the one she loved is so deceptive and willingly coerced her here. She's angry, self-loathing, and self-disrespecting at her own weaknesses....

Enemy in the Mirror

In a world dominated by an incessant drum beat of "us vs. them", we must ask ourselves – who are "them"? Who are we fighting? How well do we know them and how defiant is our stance against them? Today's economically sensitive culture is ripe for picking an enemy and...

Germination

Germination- the beginning of new life which is an exciting, yet fragile, time that encapsulates the miraculous Germination, as defined by Oxford languages, is “the process of something coming into existence and developing”. It’s the beginning of new life which is an...

Quit The Rage

I know that rage, I lived with it for several years in my young adult life. It's the type of rage that builds up over time. It begins to germinate somewhere within your psyche. It remains there, steadily growing, unrecognizable, because there's no understanding yet of...

Dwelling on the Past vs. Healthy Grieving

You can grieve parts of the past while also facing forward. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Consider your life like a book. There’s a difference between looking at previous chapters in order to reflect upon and improve your understanding of the story, and not...

The Road to Somewhere

She's stuck. The mud, the rain, the night; this same scenario repeats over and over like a loop set on re-play. Each day she gets out of the wagon, walks around to the back, driver side wheel, drenched in the night rain, and sees the wooden wagon wheel in the huge pot...

She Meant Well

"She meant well” is what I realize looking back on that memory – on that nine-year old girl that set a caged hamster free and how she realized the vulnerable animal had no say, no freedom, and no choice in its life. It lived confined to a small space, and an even...

Defenses: Because We All Need and Use Them

"People who laugh the most have experienced the most pain" – Unkown The first time I saw this picture I thought to myself: "Oh my God, that's me!". It stopped me dead in my tracks and burned its image in my mind. It connected with the "me" that learned long ago to...

To Care vs. To Carry

Are we called to care or are we called to carry? Or, is there another calling that is not rooted in caring or carrying that’s simply known as a legitimate personal responsibility? In a world where things are deemed good or bad, to include people, it’s easy to fall...