March 13, 2026 The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living noted five characteristics of people who lived relatively well-adjusted. And they dovetail with Christianity quite nicely. The fifth of the characteristics is Forgiveness. Forgiveness should never be confused with forgetting – some things are impossible to forget. Forgiveness does not mean saying that what the…
March 12, 2026 The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living noted five characteristics of people who lived relatively well-adjusted. And they dovetail with Christianity quite nicely. The fourth of the characteristics is Higher Meaning. Higher Meaning is interpreting your experiences in such a way that they become an asset. Grieving can make you a compassionate…
March 11, 2026 The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living noted five characteristics of people who lived relatively well-adjusted. And they dovetail with Christianity quite nicely. The third of the characteristics is Acceptance. Acceptance is simply living honestly in reality. Only by accepting reality can we deal with it. If it is 20 below outside…
March 10, 2026 The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living noted five characteristics of people who lived relatively well-adjusted. And they dovetail with Christianity quite nicely. The second of the characteristics is Compassion. Compassion is simply the acknowledgment that other people have feelings and experiences. Compassion understands that others also experience loss and grief, joy…
March 9, 2026 The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living noted five characteristics of people who lived relatively well-adjusted. And they dovetail with Christianity quite nicely. One of the characteristics is Gratitude. Simply living as thankful helps us to appreciate life and treat it as a gift. The opposite of being grateful is a two…
March 7, 2026 The Gospel for this weekend is the Story of the Woman at the Well from JOHN. If one were to start a Church revival one would probably not say, “I think we should look for women who can’t stay married and who are rejected by their own community as our lead evangelists.” …
March 6, 2026 We get offered books all the time from people cleaning out their parents’ or grandparents’ estates. We get offered sets of encyclopedias which we politely decline. Because of the world wide web encyclopedias have become unnecessary – like phone books. But I remember when encyclopedias were the go to for wanting to…
March 5, 2026 The very first committee in recorded history was the Back to Egypt Committee in the Book of Exodus. When we are confronted with something difficult we often long nostalgically for the past. Even if it is not reasonable. They were slaves! Why would you want to go back to that?! Nostalgia is…
March 4, 2026 The basic outline of a story is that you need a plot and an antagonist and a protagonist. The antagonist tries to end the story. The protagonist tries to push the story into the future. The antagonist wants to end. The protagonist wants to continue. When we tell ourselves same-old-same-old, it’s no…
March 3, 2026 Carl Sandburg’s book of poetry, The People, Yes, published in 1936, is a collection of folk wisdom. Sandburg takes these nuggets of folk wisdom and sayings that he has gathered over the years and weaves poetry around them and celebrates the everyday people who do most of the living and loving and…