Sometimes someone you know is doing something that any idiot – yourself included – can see is heading for disaster. Most likely the person doing this knows that everyone thinks they are making a huge mistake. (If they don’t, if you are any sort of friend you need to be brave enough to gently raise it with them.) Once they know that others do not … Continue reading When Someone You Love is Making a Big Mistake
Forgiveness is absolutely essential, but sometimes our hurts are just so big. Here are some steps I have found useful in getting to a point of forgiveness. 1. Be realistic about your pain and what it is you are forgiving. If you are angry, be angry. If you are hurt, be hurt. Don’t pretend it’s not as bad as it is. If you are destroyed, … Continue reading Steps to Forgiveness
So often, we mean to change, but our brain won’t cooperate. We will do our best to let go of or forgive something only to have the same thoughts and feelings show up again and again. Or we determine to do or not do something but we keep getting pulled off course by forgetfulness or temptation or habit. If we don’t know better, we will … Continue reading Change and Brain Habits
I don’t know if it’s just a quirk of my personality or if someone dropped me on my head as a child, but I always feel responsible for everything. I feel like if I was only good enough at managing all aspects of my life, my house would always be clean, I would never be late, laundry would never pile up, my children would never … Continue reading Don’t get upset over things you can’t control!
1. “Lord, please make this idiot stop being a moron.” 2. “Lord, please help this person stop doing terrible things.” 3. “Lord, please turn this person’s heart towards you so he can change.” 4. “Lord, help me show this person your ways through how I deal with him.” 5. “Father, if it fits with your will, please bring a miracle to … Continue reading Ways To Pray For An Enemy
. At the very end of my book The Upside Down World – A Book of Wisdom in Progress, I have a section which I called “Quantum Christianity”. It consists of several pages of fairly random notes about a variety of subjects ranging from quantum physics to abortion. I don’t usually makes notes, but I do usually think about a variety of odd things. I … Continue reading I think about weird things
We often have a hard time accepting the difference between how we feel and what is true. Feelings themselves aren’t wrong, they just tend to point in the wrong direction if left untrained. But our feelings are meant to lead us, so it’s worth it to take the time to start training them to line up with reality. The best way I know how to … Continue reading Perspective
I just read a blogger commenting on how people who are strongly intuitive can be really bad at seeing the obvious even though they are really good at seeing what’s going on beneath the surface. Boy-oh-boy is that me! It’s probably why I have such a high tolerance for messes and have taken so long to become a somewhat average housekeeper. I can spend 10 … Continue reading Why I am an Idiot
Here’s where I tell you all about the magic of gratitude journals. Everyone you and I know, from my mother to Oprah swears that keeping a gratitude journal changed their life. Which is wonderful, but I have never kept a gratitude journal. The idea of having one more thing to remember and make time for – at the same time no less! – makes me … Continue reading Why I Won’t Keep a Gratitude Journal!
I have 2 copies of a New-York Times Bestselling book on “love languages”. Which is odd because I really don’t like the book. Since it’s a major bestseller, I guess that makes me odd. The reason I don’t like the book: it spends all its pages convincing you and teaching you to learn the love language your partner speaks. Yet the book says nothing that … Continue reading Lookin’ for Love
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