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January 2022

January 25, 2022

Victorious Living Does Not Always Feel Like a Win

One of the great difficulties of my adult life is reconciling the reality of success...

December 2021

December 14, 2021

When is it Okay to Hate?

From the time we are children, we are taught that hate is bad. No matter...

December 09, 2021

Discerning Friends and Enemies

It is not as easy as it seems to discern between friend and foe. In...

November 2021

November 23, 2021

Why Giving Up is Such a Popular Option

We like to give up. We don’t like to admit it, but the truth is...

October 2021

October 26, 2021

What Is This Really About?

I read an interesting article today about the various angles of hypocrisy (spoiler: there are...

October 07, 2021

Making and Using Emotions

Where do emotions come from? How are they born, reared, and pushed from the nest?...

September 2021

September 28, 2021

Conflict: Choosing the Grounds

When I think about conflict, it often conjures the image of two armies standing across...

July 2021

July 08, 2021

The Foolishness of Dating Revenge

I grew up a country music fan, so I get the appeal of breakup revenge....

May 2021

May 06, 2021

Graduation

We are heading into the season of graduations and it is one of my favorite...

April 2021

April 20, 2021

How We Solve Problems

We face a lot of problems. More than we think, in some ways (less than...

January 2021

January 14, 2021

Long Live The Dream

It has been nearly sixty years since Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared “I have...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

The Power and Place of Forgiveness

There is a subtle rhythm to the way we live. A pattern of ups and...

December 22, 2020

Confused and Frustrated

What a year it has been. What a life we live. What a world. One...

December 08, 2020

Where Do My Feelings Come From?

Like most of you, I’ve rarely questioned where my feelings come from. Does it really...

November 2020

November 05, 2020

The Dizzying Journey Between Exile and Return

There are two sides to the coin of human experience: pain and joy; consolation and...

October 2020

October 08, 2020

The Anger of The American People

If there is one thing that defines the state of American society today, it is...

September 2020

September 15, 2020

How Does This Make You Feel?

A few weeks after our miscarriage, I started going to counseling. Like many Americans, I...

September 08, 2020

What Questions Are You Asking Yourself

From the time we are babies, we are asking questions of the world around us....

July 2020

July 30, 2020

Keeping the Fight Out of Conflict

My wife and I have been married for five years and we still can’t seem...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

How Far Should We Follow Our Feelings?

I saw an ad recently about how to handle our emotions. It suggested the way...

May 14, 2020

What To Do About Pain

Every day we feel some semblance of pain. From agony, torture and tragedy to discomfort,...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

5 Ways Being Single Matters for Your Marriage

First, let me say right off the bat that being single is important in its...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

3 Ways You Are Engaging in Self-Deception

Without exception, human beings have developed a habit of self-deception. It is one of the...

February 04, 2020

The Danger of Filling Emotions

Our emotions are the result of one of our values being pressed. When we feel a...

January 2020

January 21, 2020

5 Ways Your Emotions Might Be Damaging Your Relationships

We have a difficult time with out emotions. How much should we express them? When?...

December 2019

December 25, 2019

Are My Emotions Lying to Me?

Emotions are complicated. In our modern culture we really aren’t sure what to do with...

August 2019

August 19, 2019

4 Things That Are Never THEIR Fault

We love to blame others. It is a favorite pastime, as much a part of...

June 2019

June 21, 2019

Thanks Emotions. I’ll Take It From Here

We treat our emotions like they are everything there is, the end. We want to...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

They Are Hurting Just As Much As You Are

One of the side-affects of my patterned thinking is that I start to think the world revolves...

April 17, 2019

What Triggers You, Why, and How to Respond

Our emotions belong to us. As much as we try to pawn them off on...