It’s Lighten Up Monday! More than once in my life I have been unable to answer a simple question. This was a very important question and I blew it! [youtube id=”v5o5JRAnfDI”] This clip taken from Fully Alive. For more info, click here. What’s your unusual wedding story?
What a Vacuum Cleaner Taught Me About Love
I was settled so deeply into my recliner I’d need to plan ahead in order to get out. I looked up from my crossword puzzle, groping for a three-letter word starting with O, ending with D and meaning “not young.” That’s when I saw it. A solitary figure stood in the dim interior of the storage closet like a silent …
Silence Isn’t Golden!
A man and his wife were feuding at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. After a week of no communication, the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight to Chicago. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (AND LOSE), he wrote …
Three Steps to Eliminating Explosive Emotional Buildup!
When I was speaking with Women of Faith, I listened as Nicole Johnson spoke about emotional explosive gases that had built up in her life. One day she couldn’t find a sock that she knew she had put in the dryer. Suddenly there was an explosion of rage and frustration. This was not “Sock Anger,” she explained. The missing sock …
Are You Having A Contraction?
It’s Lighten Up monday I have a friend that wrote “Good Grief” an inspiring story of how she navigated the stormy waters of illness and tragic loss. She also wrote about the thoughtless things people say to friends in pain. I should have read her book before speaking to my wife in the delivery room! [youtube id=”ajPhBEVsfDg”] Duh! Think …