Tag: Unconditional Love
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A Step Mother’s Manifesto
This is in part a public promise to my family and a soapbox stand for anyone who wants the right to love your spouse’s children. Why is it that the stepmother is portrayed as the evil one in the fairy tale? That is often the furthest from the truth of reality. Most stepmothers want only…
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It Gets Easier, Right? Wrong.
Hey God, this thing…this life lesson thing. I am trying really. I am trying to do that forgiveness thing too. I am not doing a good job of it at all. I get mad still…ok, I get angry. It is not fair. It is not fair that those who did mean and bad things to…
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I Said it
She grabs the soapbox. She steps up…to the mic and begins. Can you hear that? Listen to the sounds. The noise. It is the sound of life as we know it falling down around us. We are no longer safe in our own homes. We can’t go to the store without worrying if we will…
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Respect the Dignity of Every Human Being
“Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?…I will, with God’s help.” Book of Common Prayer, p. 417 I wasn’t going to get into this conversation, but a few of my readers have asked me about it since they know I am a Christian and…
Lori O'Gara, Author 