Aug 4, 2015 | Blog, Love 365, Marriage and Family, Other, Practicing Love
Most couples are willing to spend an hour a week talking about their relationship. I suggest that emotional attunement can take place (at a minimum) in that weekly “state of the union” meeting. That means that at least an hour a week is devoted to the relationship and...
Aug 1, 2015 | Blog, Faith, Prayer, Strength for Hard Times
The people who are experiencing the most pain tend to be the ones who are always trying to make everyone smile” (Kushandwizdom). When You Wake Up in Pain Some days are better than others. But today, not one of the “better ones.” Not only did my...
Jul 8, 2015 | Be Remarkable, Be Remarkable eCourse, Be Remarkable Webinar, Community, Conversation, Life Coaching, Other, Spiritual Formation
Unfortunately, our life may look like a formless tangle of limbs and branches than a precisely pruned tree. We struggle to determine which limbs and branches are essential and which are superfluous; which bear fruit and which merely use nourishment. With a...
Apr 19, 2015 | Marriage and Family, Practicing Love, The Waiting Room, Waiting, Writing
I should have remembered, though, that the life of the spirit is never static. We’re born on one level, only to find some new struggle towards wholeness gestating within. That’s the sacred intent of life, of God—to move us continuously toward growth,...
Apr 4, 2015 | Bible Study, Devotions, Faith, HaveEyestoSee, Other, Practicing Love, Prayer, Trust in God, Waiting
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn’t the end. Jesus didn’t escape from death; he conquered it and...