Receiving the gift of forgiveness
What a gift! In my own life, this has been one of the most liberating revelations of all time.
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Mind Health
Articles related primarily to thinking, believing, and conscious awareness
Divided?
A word used more and more in peoples’ conversations to describe our nation’s population, is the word “divided.” Some of the questions that pop up in my mind when thinking about this are as follows: Is division all that bad? Diversity of viewpoints is a good thing. Is there really anything new about the division?
Overcoming the cycle of offense
Included here is much of the contents of Chapter One of the book I authored called Escaping the Pain of Offense: Empowered to Forgive from the Heart. God’s Creation, including the human race He placed on earth as made in His image, is an awesome declaration of purpose and destiny. From the human
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Psalm 31 Refuge
There is nothing that comes close to matching the Psalms for inspiring hope in our hope deficient world. The 24 verses of Psalm 31 show how pressing into God’s love will give us true meaning and purpose in life. Go ahead and look up Psalm 31 in your favorite translation of the Bible and see
Emotion Quotient
Emotion Quotient (EQ) is the measurement for identifying EC. In the previous two articles we examined how emotional capacity (EC) is directly linked to perceived worth and value as a human being. We discussed how shame destroys emotional health and how vulnerability is necessary to chase away the shame. Two core elements of vulnerability are
Emotional Capacity – Part 2
The previous article contrasted EI with EC. It takes much more than intelligence to deal with the realities of life. We defined Emotional Capacity (EC) as follows, “the ability to interpret and express inner emotional messages with unshaken assurance of personal worth and identity.” Challenging circumstances in life create inner emotional messages perceived as threats
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Emotional capacity
The term emotional intelligence (EI) has become a buzz word to address the role of emotion in relationships, work, organization, and family environments. However, much of what we hear on this topic has very little to do with emotions. EI seems to have more to do with cognitive awareness and attempts to avoid or subdue
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Trust triumphs through trying times
Like the constant drip of a leaky faucet, is the reminder of human inadequacy when facing a chronic health condition, disability, terminal illness or a prolonged relational conflict an offended party is unwilling to reconcile. In situations like these, the definition of healing seems to change as time moves on. Our perspective of God is
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Trash turned into treasure
This is part three of a three part trilogy of articles on the kind of “trash” known as inner conflict or unresolved heart issues. Part One (Taking Out the Trash) discussed some of the ways inner pain can create unhealthy patterns of thinking and tolerating destructive behaviors. In Part Two (Trash Leads to Crash)
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Trash leads to crash
This is part two of a three part trilogy on “trash talk.” Part one discussed some of the ways to allow pain to expose unhealthy patterns of thinking and tolerating garbage in our mental and emotional life. In this article I show how these patterns create diseases that destroy our quality of life and
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