Steve Farrar is challenging my idea of manhood and why it's so lost on my current generation. It's refreshing and bold. Very much against The extremism of our day, and emboldening to me. However to speak out these thoughts on a public corner would create divisions and fisticuffs on the street.
Read MoreRecently I had to change the cartridge in a printer, so I took a picture of it so I would remember what the cartridge was when I got to the store.
Do you ever feel like you're empty like your cartridge just doesn't have any ink in it like you're not able to express yourself like it's just not going to print anymore and how can you go on because life is just empty. I've had times where that's happened in my life.
Read MoreWhat kinds of masks do you like to dress up with? Is it Superhero, Scary or Seductive? I find that in my work I talk about the masks people use as crutches. They latched on to it and enjoyed being something different and then at some point they realize it isn’t working anymore, but the harder they try to pry the smile, the paint, the eyes off their real self the more painful it is. I know the Master Mask Maker and I try to ask him to help and go to him for wisdom when we are facing changes in how a person is working to present their real self to the world. Read more here so you can understand how masks are fun at first, but could be painful later.
Read MoreI remember when I experienced my first sense of what it meant to be afraid. I don’t forget those things. I share some of this with you, but most of all I share there is hope and healing with the training, education, and private confidential care that I am able to provide. Reach out when you are ready to find peace for yourself.
Read MoreSo you do remember a time when you felt cherished and comfort? See if it had aspects of this statement or pattern.
Read MoreI see consistent care. Making my faith mature. Bending my faith in a way I had not known could create purpose and beauty. Honestly, however, because that is what one says perhaps prior to a shade of a lie. Honestly, I thought I would never get over the loss of the comforts I thought I had in the Place.
Read MoreRecent thoughts and circumstances brought this to mind that there is something to fear, but fear itself is not to control unless we allow such to occur. The last part of this verse was stark against the walls of my psyche when I thought about how imperfect I must be. The verse found in Scripture that indicates that love allows us to cast such thoughts to the depths has deeper meaning to me. Have you prayed such a prayer lately with someone in your life or for yourself? The love of God is not tangible to us in our circumstances, but we can seek it through God’s Spirit to be present in our time of need. I
Read MoreMany variations exist throughout culture and spiritual precedence when the words mental health are utilized. Some would interact with such as an ongoing dialogue. Others would stray or avoid such conversations. Mental health has taken on a lot of good, but also there are some misnomers and myths that are not correct about what mental health is to the average human being.
Read MoreThis is a recent marketing piece that has been interesting to me in being able to reach into a different sector of business and connect with other professionals who are extremely knowledgeable about relationships. Many of the attendees indicated their constant concern and also some challenges in being part of the process that divorcing couples have to connect with. Realtors really are unpaid counselors in some ways because of all the time and effort they put into accomplishing moving the world. I have also found them to be profoundly sensitive people regarding the ethics and heart that they perform their job. Realtors definitely have my respect in a lot of ways. Because I am impartial to the process in which I am gaining more friends than being exclusive I want to personally thank some specific businesses that have reached out to form creative ventures and mutual works alongside my desire to reach hurting people.
Read MoreHope is not found in circumstances. It can be discovered in who God is. - Andy Stanley
I was going through my various points of memory and thinking about how I am impacted by various concerns and periods of life. Like a large sculpture or big bubble letters coming out of the darkness the word DISCOURAGEMENT glowed in the recesses of my mind. I relate discouragement or its forms to the thoughts concerning pain and sacrifice. Not a sacrifice of reward, but a sacrifice of hurt, wounding, or scarring. A memory that marks a moment. Taking on a form of physical, mental or emotional formation that remains like a Greek marble statue or Corinthian column.
Read MoreBack to school presents itself with so many emotions… here are some fun fictitious thoughts about the waning of summer and the beginning of fall. I work with families who are transitioning right now to get schedules worked out for the coming year as they desire to have appointments that don’t interrupt the school day.
Read MoreMind training in calming skills reveals increased visualization causes better control over anxiety versus succumbing to the mismanagement of energy.
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Lust of anything is something that creates division or dissociation from a real connection with God. Do we lust after the fruits of the Spirit? So often the thought that we could remain focused on the goodness of God is lost on a generation that desires more and more evil ways that thinking. I struggle myself with thoughts of evil and also hear in my sessions with others their struggle to overcome or their complacency to remain in bondage. I hope this is a good word or challenge to not remain. Press on.
Read Moremy writing today is to express my thankfulness to disseminate information through helpful format in various ways to those around us. I am reminded of how the creative nature of a holy God became involved in the void
Read MoreMen are a struggle to get together, but when they know connection and group interaction there is a synergy that is incredible in its ability to grow minds in new ways and reverberate itself into the hearts of their families.
Read MoreThe pursuit of happiness...
Read More"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real, you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up?", he asked, "or bit by bit?"
Read MoreThoughts on what Time may mean and how I resolve to use it as a commodity that I spend rather than having it spend me.
Read MoreWe think of infidelity as being a common and accepted practice with regard to 50 percent of marriages in current culture, but this is not a new problem as it’s occurrence has been present through out the ages.
Read MoreI was looking for encouragement and found these words in Scripture to renew my soul today. Biblical literature does something different than my social media friends or post. The Bible is God’s post just for me sometimes. Hope this encourages you too.
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