Bill McDonald's Newsletter - Archive

Making Decisions

Sometimes, clients will come to me to help make “an important decision.” Over the years, I’ve discovered and developed a protocol for making decisions, that

Jacob’s Wound / God’s Wounding

One of my favorite counseling stories from the Old Testament is the account of Jacob wrestling with God “by the ford of the river Jabbok.”

Pacifism or Passivity

Let me begin with a story I’ll frequently share with clients. The Old Monk and the Cobra Somewhere in the Indian subcontinent, there’s a village.

Despise Nothing, Honor Everything

This is one of those “my father taught me” statements. And that’s how I speak of it whenever I teach it to my clients. Truth

What Now?

Last year, as every year, ended with a narrative about the Holy Birth of a Prince of Peace. Born in innocence and vulnerability Now, The

A Matter of Life Change

The other day, I pulled from my living room bookshelf a small volume I’d long forgotten – a small paperback with a blue cover by

Burning Man (Patterns)

Apologia: Truth be told, I don’t write about Burning Man from having direct experience. I’ve had clients who were “burners”, and have observed from a

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