Category Archives: Step 5: Rebuilding Life & Relationships
Want Respect?
If we’re honest, we all want respect. We crave assurance that people think we’re valuable—that they admire us for our abilities, qualities and achievements. Respect is a topic that has often been talked about, demanded, and even sung about over the years. In fact some of you might even remember Aretha Franklin’s chart-topping 1960’s classic…
The Most Dangerous Habit
It’s happening everywhere. Turn on the news. Listen to your friends. It’s not new, but it seems to be gaining traction—and it is destroying lives. What could this insidious propensity be? It’s blaming. Yep! The habit, or compulsion, or whatever it has become, to blame someone else for every negative thing that happens is hurting…
Restoration and MORE!
My niece just had a baby a couple of days ago. What a cutie! So innocent. So trusting. So honest about expressing his needs. We’re rejoicing that he’s finally here, safe and sound. We were all like him at one time. Honest. Trusting. Dependent. And then, life happened. Little by little we learned that it…
More Than You Can Handle?
Sometimes we hear untruths repeated so many times that we begin to believe that they are true. It can happen in our own lives when someone continually tells us we are stupid or lazy or worthless. If we hear it often enough we begin to accept it as truth. It also happens in the Christian…
What We Never Learned
My 11-year old granddaughter is a reading/writing whiz, but she definitely doesn’t have one of those natural math minds. The concepts are hard for her. Retaining them is even harder. Since she has been getting further and further behind, her mom and I decided that it was time for some “summer school” to help her…
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