Category: My Life
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A Year of Mondays | Stop a Moment and Enjoy Creation
When you can do little else, be delighted with creation. In this article, I write about my bout with COVID-19, and how I learned to stop a moment amid the chaos and just enjoy creation. Have you noticed it’s not easy to create or accomplish much with chaos as a steady diet? Small things get… Read more
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How to Feel Happier: Three Habits to Adopt Today
Happiness is my thing. I feel a stirring when I read a quote about happiness or find a book on the subject (that I haven’t already read), or when I think about a particularly happy time in my life. Thinking about happiness boosts happiness. Read that last sentence once again but slower this time. (The… Read more
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5 Ways to Introduce Peace into Your Morning Routine
To find peace amid unrest, I follow the same rules I use for creating. Since I find the creative process extremely difficult and unnatural, I have rules set in place to help me create. When I begin writing, a million other activities vie for my attention (e.g., cleaning under the stove, shining the sinks, making… Read more
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3 Ways to Forgive and Forget
Forgive and Forget To forgive and forget is difficult, but it’s necessary and an important aspect of moving forward. I’ll be straight up; I don’t like doing things I’m told I have to do. It started when I was a toddler. My mother’s words still echo: “Eat everything on your plate.” I sat for hours… Read more
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Stay Hungry
“It just takes a tiny hunger pain for God to step in” (Paula Nilsen). After moving from a house to an apartment, I quickly learned that if I wanted to get any rest at all, I had to find a way to muffle the noise from the tenants above, and from the busy street beyond… Read more
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Spilt Milk and Other Nonissues
I’m sure you’ve noticed how anxieties crowd out God’s message of peace. We aren’t meant to carry them. We are meant to cast all our cares upon Him. A wise person once asked me: Can you make this “issue” a “nonissue?” Can you just say, “This really isn’t that big of a deal”? It’s a… Read more
