As the social creatures we are, it is important to remember 1) that your are divinely created 2) so is everyone else. Sometimes the very power that comes with being divinely created can be overwhelming, too grand, too much to handle. This is the time to take someone else’s hand. There is something about the […]
In the simplest terms, prejudice is simply an unexamined belief upon which we act. Prejudice can take the form of disliking someone for their race, religion, gender, sexual preference, body type, just about anything at all. Discounting another person for any reason based upon prejudice is detrimental to our own well-being. When we choose to
When the truth, as we know it, is rocked to the core by an experience we are called to do some soul searching. This is what happened to me yesterday as I visited the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan. As I stood on ground zero for the first deployment of a nuclear weapon in the
One of the keys to a successful relationship, be that relationship between friends, roommates, lovers, business or for that matter, any relationship is to create a bond. The tricky part is creating a bond that is not so tight it will strangle the relationship. Within any relationship growth and change are a perfectly natural
Yep, here we are on the eve of Independence Day for our nation. Most certainly the deeper meaning of this day will get lost somewhere between the bbq and fireworks, so let me take a moment and invite you to think about what independence means; it means to severe the ties the allow others to
We are all products of our past, no matter how much we want to overcome our past, even our attempts to overcome our past defines us. Every experience we have ever had, even those we did not necessarily experience, but just heard about, are part of our beings today. This is something we cannot get
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Nothing happens in the future. No, I am not being a fatalist, nor predicting doom and gloom. What I am saying is that the future does not exist except as a concept. Things happen in the now; right now, and not a moment later. This moment, this very moment you are looking at this word
When my beautiful Bride Terrie starts chattering at me about something on her mind I sometimes mentally run and hide because I know there will be about a zillion words coming my way, and I won’t know which ones to listen to. I also know that when my beautiful Bride Terrie asks me a question
We can take pleasure from things close to us, even certain experiences. Take for instance the pleasure you get from seeing a child smile. There is nothing artificial about a childs smile, so it rings in our hearts clearly. We can recognize this reaction in ourselves, but too often we do not recognize that someone
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The question is; how do we define ourselves? Do we define ourselves by how many people we have charmed? Do we define ourselves by the burdens we carry or our responsibilities? Do we define ourselves by our jobs, our cars, our homes, our income? None of these definitions truly answer the question “Who Am I?”
