We can feel a sense of gratitude to someone or something, but it does not necessarily have to become indebtedness. What creates mandatory indebtedness is guilt. Guilt free gratitude You may be grateful to your High School coach who gave you the opportunity to see what you have inside yourself. The Bank Officer who helped …
How much happiness can I take? I suspect that this is not a question you have asked yourself lately. Well, the answer to the question “How much happiness can I take” is: as much as you will allow. A false sense of lack We often believe that if we ask for too much we will …
We define self justification as being… making excuses for our actions One of the things we all seem to be good at doing is justifying our actions. More more importantly, we self justify our inactions. At the drop of a hat we can come up with dozens of reasons why we did not do something …
Guilt is a cesspool in our lives. Guilt is junk in our garage. Guilt is cement waiting to harden. You would not go into your yard and jump into a cesspool. We know the junk in our garage needs to be cleaned out, if for no other reason than so we can park our cars. …
Muck and Mire are what we call fear. Muck and Mire are what we call gossip. The result of blaming others for what we have or don’t have is also an example of Muck and Mire. Just as we banished guilt the other day as having no place in our now, neither is there a place …
When we send our kids off to school we think the teachers at that school are going to teach our kids (or grand kids) what they need to know. The truth is those dedicated people in the teaching profession do a wonderful job in so many areas, but the most important lessons are not the ones …
