As I look forward to the close of the year, I find myself contemplating the subject of forgiveness more and more. And what I notice most is just how much my attitude toward this particular subject has changed. Like most people, I am embarrassed to admit, I once believed that…

The hardest thing about ‘everything happens for a reason’ is waiting for the reason to come along.” — Unknown I have started and deleted the opening sentence of this post no less than five times this week, which, for me, is unusual. Usually when Thursday morning rolls around, I sit…

They say “God never closes a door without opening a window” however it can be challenging to rid yourself of feelings of anger or regret that a situation has not worked out to your liking well enough to see a new opportunity for what it is — a gift. How…

Too soon you say? Hold on, I’ll explain If I am being truthful, it’s hard for me to believe I have just embarked upon my 60th lap around the sun. When I look back on all the places I’ve been, the things that I’ve done — the people that I’ve…

Before you can have faith in everything you first have to find faith in anything. This might seem like an obvious statement when life is going well, and you are optimistic about what the future holds for you. But what if that is not the case? For example, when circumstances…

Last week I embarked on an article that was intended to be about “learning from your mistakes” but somewhere midway down the page it began to take on a life of its own and before I knew what had happened it suddenly became a piece on the much larger theme…

I remember reading a few years ago about a theory that says we all have a pre-existing connection with every single person that we meet in our lifetime — and that one of the saddest facts of life is that most of us have simply given up trying to decipher…

As children we are taught to wish upon a star, make a wish when we blow out the candles on a birthday cake, and to make a wish before blowing the seeds off the head of a dandelion — and even as adults we encourage each other to continue wishing…

Has anyone else noticed that the happier, perkier, and more perfect a YouTube personality appears to be on camera, the more messed up and manic that same person often turns out to be when the walls come tumbling down sometime in their future life? My question is — were they…