In several parts, I am going to share an adaptation of a podcast of Dr. Henry Cloud entitled, “5 Ways to Maintain Your Well Being.” Review: Part 1. Name the Reality (5-11-20) Part 2. Staying Connected (5-11-20) Part 3. Find a New Routine...
In several parts, I am going to share an adaptation of a podcast of Dr. Henry Cloud entitled, “5 Ways to Maintain Your Well Being.” Review: Part 1. Name the Reality (5-11-20) Part 2. Staying Connected (5-11-20) 3. Find a new...
In several parts, I am going to share an adaptation of a podcast of Dr. Henry Cloud entitled, “5 Ways to Maintain Your Well Being.” 1. Name the reality Stop and say, “Wow! Life has really changed!” That may sound like a small thing...
Social distancing is today’s virus preventative of choice. Keeping our distance physically from those who are sick can protect us from acquiring a virus. There is another kind of distancing that when practiced smothers opportunity. I am calling it emotional...
Whether we like it or not, and honestly, we don’t, life is often unkind, unfair, and it is unpredictable. So, what are we going to do about it? We know that it is better to choose wisdom and prudence than selfishness and folly. Usually, the wise and...
Conspiracies, why do we love them? How could we not? For some, outing a conspiracy smacks of neutralizing those nefarious individuals who are secretly plotting to control us. For some, the joy of conspiracies is in the unraveling of the Gordian Knot of cryptic information...
True friends are some of life’s greatest treasures. True friends are like solar eclipses. They don’t happen very often, and you have to be in the right place at the right time to experience them. But when committed friendship is experienced, as with a solar eclipse, our...
When a person has made up their mind that there is only one acceptable response or only one appropriate approach and you have failed, for whatever reason, to do things “the right way,” what do you do? In some settings, mandatory and specified...
“What’s wrong?” I asked, and the answer was, “Nothing!” “I know something is wrong.” I pressed, “Why won’t you tell me?” I was convinced that when something bothers us sufficiently for someone else to notice, that...
“A brother who is wronged is more unyielding than a fortified city.” (Proverbs 18:19 NIV) Sometimes by accident, sometimes by stupidity, sometimes unknowingly, sometimes intentionally we sever connections. One weeknight, I was passing through the...
