I have a friend. She seems to want to marry him because of the guilt she feels. She had cheated, and she is very sorry and broken for it, but he keeps making her pay for it. He would neither forgive or let her go. She wants to join the military, and he is ok marrying her for the benefits, but he is

Today I decided to be grateful for the ordinary things that people take for granted. Grateful for legs that can walk, grateful for clothes and food on the table. I am grateful for a sound mind, grateful for a job. These things can easily throw us into chaos if we lose them, but we seldom take the t

I recently had to counsel someone who had been wrestling with thoughts of divorce. Well, she came to me for help because deep down in her heart she knew the thoughts were not right. Maybe if I marry someone else, I will have children. Male infertility is not popular, but it is a real issue. But I h

There is only one thing that can truly satisfy, and it is to be a child of God through Jesus Christ. Psychologists use the term 'Hedonic Adaptation' or the 'Hedonic Treadmill' to describe the human tendency to quickly return to a stable level of happiness despite major positive or n

The body we have is not really ours. It is given to us to steward, but to know how to steward it, I must know who gave it. The Creator gave it! We have all failed at honoring the Creator with our body, and that is why he gave His own body through Jesus Christ. Jesus took on himself our sins, on his

Hell’s best-kept secret is simply how not to end up in hell when the body dies and the soul separates from the body. One of the ways the demons of hell keep people bound for hell is by making the only way of escaping hell look unattractive. They delight in highlighting the flaws or hypocrisy found

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Silence…it has almost become extinct in today’s world. I sit here in silence typing this, but my silence could be richer if I weren’t typing anything. This is because of the noise of the keyboard keys, the noise in my mind of what I want the reader to gain, and the noise about who my audience will

I enjoy playing chess with my siblings. The castling, bishop attacks, queen checks... it goes on and on. Connecting and bonding over chess is such a heartwarming and innocent thing to do with loved ones. But my siblings are not as good as I am, so I have often played by giving them an advantage. Mo

I've had the chance to work pretty closely with the finance department, and one thing I've seen during audit season is that you don't look at an account that's still being worked on and start making final conclusions about it. There are still entries being made, things being reconci

I have had the privilege of interviewing people for job positions. In the process, I am trying to know more about them and see if they would be a good fit for the position, if they will be a long term great asset to the company. It is a learning process for both parties as they are also judging if

Become debt free, Max-out 401k contributions and other retirement investment portfolios, spend the rest of my life sipping coconut juice at the beach and picking up sea shells, travelling the world…no, not really my plan. Some of the things I mentioned are good, but life is so much more than just t

You are never too far gone. #love #christian #faith

Even the lost soul can be found. Lost in the corrupt ways of this world, living for yourself...living for money. Even the lost soul can come home. It doesn't matter how deeply lost you have become. It doesn't matter how corrupt your heart is. It doesn't matter the level of bad stuff you

My phone no longer waits for me to check the news. It simply notifies me. Unsolicited pop-ups flood my screen, and worst of all, they come from multiple apps. From YouTube to Bing, these platforms constantly bombard me with reports of awful things happening in our world. Someone got shot here, some

Kids nowadays don’t seem to understand the concept of respect, and they are also being fed a toxic definition of respect. At the heart of showing respect is the love of the other. Love teaches us to treat the other with dignity and value. I see too many kids being disrespectful of people much older

That part of you, on the inside of you, maybe somewhere in the infrastructure of your soul, that makes you feel bad when you do something mean or stupid. This part of you is called your conscience. It is a system by which we are innately made aware of God’s laws even before we ever read about them

I have searched for many missing things over the years, and one of the most memorable ones is when my wallet went missing. Now, the wallet by itself is not what made it valuable, it was the content of the wallet. When it got missing, I had just taken out cash from the bank in the amount of about $3

That in-between, that space between a miracle and gloom/pain/disappointment. It is almost like you are forced into a desperate choice, because the in-between is only a temporary decision point. It is where you decide to either chase a miracle or accept a lifetime of failure. It is that kind of fail

You know that uncomfortable feeling you experience when you have been making a lot of payments or dealing with a lot of bills, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, something gets damaged. Something spoils, and then you know the implication: it means more spending. It could simply mean that something