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How Denial Helps Credibility
Busted! So our automatic response is to hotly protest, “I didn’t do it!” “I’m not to blame!” Our denial attempts to save face but locks us into a growing web of deception, lies and half-truths. It spreads since we often need others to collaborate our statements of innocence. It spawns character assassination of others as we cast aspersions on their credibility and their statements of fact. The bigger the issue the greater the need for duplicity.
How Can I Be Always Vibrant and Inspired?
Sometimes the effort of living feels too hard. We try and we feel like we fail. We start our day with a vision for how life should look and it still turns out all wrong. We work our hearts out doing nice things for others but they forget to notice, now we feel used. I’ve had enough of this so what’s the key to getting it right? Read the rest of this entry
The Spiritual Gift of Skepticism
“One of Madelyn O’Hare’s children, who has become a born-again Christian…said that he believed his mother may well have had a change of heart and “turned to Jesus” in the hours where she was waiting, bound and gagged, to be killed. “
Doesn’t it sound great to be able to say that? Read the rest of this entry
Grappling With Anxiety And Guilt Over Syria
It’s getting harder to ignore the brewing mess in Syria as Assad plays for time to decimate his opposition. We see the pictures of maimed innocents and from our vantage point of partial information and misrepresented spin we are divided between Read the rest of this entry
How Hugo Chavez Plans To Beat The Grim Reaper
“Christ … give me life, because I still have things to do for the people and this country. Do not take me yet,” said Hugo Chavez,the Venezuelan president. Read the rest of this entry
Gaining Inspiration from the Hunger Games
It’s hard not to notice the new cult movie – The Hunger Games. Like it or not, it’s here! Reading the initial reviews, this movie will inevitably work its way onto our “must see” lists Read the rest of this entry
Death is the Great Escape?
Another day, another lunatic intent on dying turns his gun on innocent people . We shake our heads and ask, “How could he do such a stupid thing?” Read the rest of this entry
We Prayed for Healing, So What Is This?
Rachel came to see her friend to share her distressing news, Read the rest of this entry
How I Can Discover Meaning for My Life
Watching folks puzzle over the struggle and sad end of Whitney Houston’s life brings us all closer to the realization that it is really hard to find and hold onto the meaning of life. Read the rest of this entry
