In Matthew 21:13 we read:” And He declared to them, ‘It is written: My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it a den of robbers’.” In John 2:16 “To those selling doves He said, ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!” …
The burden of our disappointments, like the daily accumulation of trash, requires of us to deal with it. If not, it becomes a weight that threatens to crush us! For many, it does. The consequence: self-harm, lives lived in isolation or ended prematurely. A Silent Epidemic As per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate#:~:text=Worldwide%2C%20the%20rates%20in%202016,for%20religious%20or%20cultural%20reasons), suicide, especially in men, has …
Safe and Unsafe Groups and Some of their Practices. An Extract from a study on High-Control Groups or Cults Although written from a humanistic perspective (The 25 Signs you’re in a High-Control Group or Cult by Anastasia Somerville-Wong, February 24, 2020), I can recognise quite a few of these dysfunctional traits in some of the …
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https://www.shutterstock.com/editor/design/15707844?share_code=0d30761d6e3c5573cb50269d24c8dfed Sometimes, there can be a great disconnect between our hopes and reality. Take for example the hopes about our desired partner and the reality of who we end up choosing to spend our lives with. What do we do with this, when it happens? Such dreams are part of the self, part of our …
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I have been labouring over how best to ask for the return of one of my poetry books (My Best Poems, Part 1, Celebrating Nature) from an acquaintance, when I read the following quotation in “Oxymoronica”, p.173: NEVER LEND BOOKS, FOR NO ONE EVER RETURNS THEM; THE ONLY BOOKS I HAVE IN MY LIBRARY ARE …
