Betrayal is a tough pill to swallow. I doubt that there is a person alive who has not felt betrayed at some time or another. Merriam-Webster offers several definitions of the word betray that reveal its potential to wound: 1) to fail or desert especially in time of need; 2)…
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CHANGE IS IN THE AIR
Change happens. What we do in response to it, how we handle the emotional fallout, is often more important than the event itself. Before Thanksgiving, my husband loaned his “project” car, a 1990 Jeep Wrangler, to his nephew. Scott, being the endlessly generous man that I married, offered it up easily.…
View More CHANGE IS IN THE AIRTruth ~ What Are We Fighting For?
The value of truth seems to have lost its influence. The world keeps turning. I get up in the morning to the sun, and go to bed each night with the moon and the stars shining their light on my broken heart. The world is a “hot mess” as my…
View More Truth ~ What Are We Fighting For?TRUTH MATTERS ~ Restoring Quality of Your Life
“The Truth is that circumstances do not determine the quality of your life; your choices do. Mystical Truth is the nuclear power of your soul. Personal truth is a stepping-stone, but it does not contain nuclear powered grace, so to speak. Why not go for the real thing when you…
View More TRUTH MATTERS ~ Restoring Quality of Your LifeTHE WOUNDS OF CHILDHOOD
The wounds of childhood run deep. They run broad and wide and are left to fester when the light of understanding, compassion, acknowledgement, and love are nonexistent. In the immediate aftermath of injury, tears may be shed, cries and protests may erupt, but childhood wounds are often covered up with…
View More THE WOUNDS OF CHILDHOODBeneath Our Pain
We dig beneath our pain not only to eliminate the pain, but to grow through and beyond it; to discover what, or who, is lurking there in the dark corner of our heart left unattended as life passed swiftly by. When we grow weary of living on the surface, of…
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