Think back: who has been your closest and most enjoyable friend? Close friendships, those that cross over into the realm if intimate friendships, are vital to our well-being. In the first of three blog posts on relating and relationships, I covered the research on why these relationships are vital to us. Having that friend with …
You have no idea how difficult it really is right now! Oh the times have I felt this way. I am certain you have felt it, too. Pressures mount. Friends pull away. Stress leads to health problems. Money gets tight, really tight. People who should behave better go on the attack. We see our world …
Overflowing with thankfulness. There is a curious phrase for you. How many of us feel like we are overflowing with thankfulness most of the time? So many people live their lives without much thankfulness at all, for anything. Yet if we have life, we have much for which to be thankful. Every day we are …
Gratitude is a gift to the one who chooses it. Sadly, so few choose it. Research is showing us that there is one oft-overlooked choice we can make that can have a significant positive impact on our health and well-being. That one choice is gratitude. According to research from the University of California, gratitude can …
Why would the man do that? Maximillian Kolbe, catholic priest and Polish prisoner at the Auschwitz death camp, is remembered for his voluntary death in the place of a fellow prisoner, a man he did not know. Kolbe had sheltered many from the harsh treatment of the Nazis, and had helped more than 2000 Jews …
Why are most popular stories in books, movies, television and songs focused on relationships? And why do these stories resonate so strongly with us that we spend millions-make that billions- of dollars on pursuing them? Even in stories primarily about events we find ourselves drawn to the interplay between characters small and large. The history …
The universality of the nature of relationships may in fact point to interpersonal relating as a design feature in all of us, and that we were designed to be relational beings. We are designed for relating and interdependence, and are thus equipped for a unique relationship with our God, a relationship that is at once consuming and consummate, and in which we can find our true identity and highest fulfillment.
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