Category Archives: Holidays
Finding Balance in Unbalanced Relationships: A Discussion about Conflicting Emotions.
Think about relationships that you have with significant people in your life, what is the first word that comes to mind? Is the word a reaction to how you feel about relationship or a descriptor of how interaction occurs? Something … Continue reading
Finding Balance Between Perception and Expectations.
Who’s Glasses Are You Looking Through? Is it really reasonable to believe that you can make other people happy by always doing what’s expected, acquiescing to the wishes of others to live in their blessing? In reality you can never … Continue reading
Finding Balance: Are My Feelings Giving A Correct Assessment of Life?
I was recently talking to someone who’s parent had died and the father remarried within a year. As we spoke, I heard the painful story describing the personal experience of a person who felt that remarriage changed the surviving parent … Continue reading
Finding a Balance in Second Marriages and Family Relationships
What is the lived-experience of individuals who experience the loss of a spouse and then decides to remarry? Until you have had the experience of having to reconstruct life from the ashes of what has been, you may not know … Continue reading
Finding Direction in the Holidays
How can a good choice be made when conflicting expectations, emotions, and control factors exert their power over our will and thinking processes? The holiday season like other times of the year is a time that require decisions that results … Continue reading
Finding Grace in the Holidays
Is it really reasonable to expect that anyone would demonstrate Godlike capabilities and give you grace and expect nothing in return? It is a good question and worthy of examining because there are times in life that all of us … Continue reading
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Finding Hope in the Holidays
In the season of Christmas, one of the themes that are common and heard is focused on hope. In the last few years it seems that with job losses, foreclosures, and the general direction of decline that has been developing … Continue reading
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Finding Peace in The Holidays
The Christmas holiday for many people is attached to a deeply embedded need that every human being has to experience the joy of connection with other people, especially family and those that we love and care about. In the religious … Continue reading
Easter Week: A Reminder of the Cross as the Core Message of Christianity
Easter is a day when Christians all around the world focus upon the events that take place around a geographical location in Israel where Jesus was crucified and died upon the cross as the Savior of the world. The events … Continue reading
