In Part One we looked at how to go to an appreciation memory in order to help us get our relational circuits (RC’s) back on and be able to relate better with God and others. In this part I want to talk about a part of the brain that Dr. Karl Lehman has named the […]
APPRECIATION:Calming Your Brain When Upset-Part One
If you could learn an easy way to calm yourself and/or get the relational circuits in your brain back on when you’re upset, would you be interested? Stick with me here for a few minutes and I will share with you how to do that and how to help others do it, too. As you […]
Conversations With Jesus
I’ve journaled for many, many years, mostly writing down my prayers and pains, like a diary to God. I like to write anyway and journaling keeps my mind on what I’m praying about, with an added plus that I feel like I’ve left some of the problem there in my journal, as if it were […]
Musings From Second Peter One
While reading this morning in 2 Peter 1, I noticed the last part of verse 10: “. . . for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble.” I love it when something new jumps out from a passage I have read hundreds of times. I would love it even more if […]
When the Lights Stay Off
Some people call it the “dark night of the soul.” My old friend, Dan Stone said it feels like God is off somewhere drinking lemonade. Nothing feels like it used to when the lights were on. Some days the sun is shining, but the Son is mostly quiet. Questions buzz. Thoughts whir. Nothing seems to […]
Truth Does Not Take Away Pain–Part One
Do you ever wonder why sometimes after a painful event, you just cannot get your feet back on the ground—even if you know God’s truth about the situation? And then other times someone can say a word of truth and you pop right back up? There is a reason and it has to do with […]