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Reason for Growth

Reason: the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences.. We often need “reason” for… everything. (Things occur, and then we understand them, and then we grow.) While we may not need a reason, for example, to buy something for our spouse, we do need a reason for… becoming a better spouse. What are the …

To The Max!

Imagine an empty glass… It is the famous glass that has a capacity of being half full or half empty. We’ve all heard the question about whether we see the glass half full or half empty…. This being a way to determine whether we are optimists or pessimists. But what about the other half of …

A Good Name

What kind of things are associated with a good name? If you were to make a list of ten or twenty items that characterized a good name, what would it look like? No seriously, take a moment to do this and then reflect on some of them. Is one of them honesty? Integrity maybe? Usually …

Cost of Vanity

Vanity is Captivity… Captivity is a trap. The first thing we have to realize when it comes to vanity is that it has its own agenda. And even though it comes with the general feeling that it’s all about us, the truth is is that it’s about more than us. It’s about looking like, feeling …

The Nevertheless

There is horror, there is law, there is favor, there is mercy…. And sometimes, many times, the dots don’t connect. In fact, we have to assume that they won’t. We cannot always make sense of it. Nevertheless… In the midst of it all it is this that we grab onto. The “nevertheless.”What is yours? The …

“Unperfected” over Unwritten

We are slaves to history. Life could be easy, however, this ‘history thing’ is there to make sure that it’s not. It has some kind of agenda that seeks to work within us rather that just externally write a story about us. If we are going through life just recording what is happening, we are missing …

Crossing The Line

What happens when we cross the line? It could be a like (big or small), a personal offense, or general lack of respect. Have you ever experienced this? Caught in a place where you know you are out of place, but not exactly sure why. This week’s post takes a look at how we can …

On this Thanksgiving…

There’s a saying from a famous show here in America called, Seinfeld. The saying is well-known to this show’s fans… It is, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” It is said with a kind of tone that signifies that the person that’s saying it, is saying it with their mouth, but they don’t really …