Healing the “Mom Gap”
A lot of mothers love the idea of staying home and raising their own kids, and some moms stay at home because it's the most economical way to care for the children. Many feel God's put it on their hearts to stay at home for their children. Unfortunately, my wife has...
Implementing Gratitude in Your Life
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and turkeys everywhere are running for cover just as quickly as yams, cranberries, and stuffing are filling the grocery store shelves (I’m tempted to pause here out of sheer hunger). The only thing as popular about Thanksgiving...
Black Friday – Finish the Year Strong!
My assistant is an avid Black Friday shopper. After eating a turkey dinner with her family, she naps (I would blame tryptophan, but it’s really pre-game prep for her long night ahead), and then meets up with four of her closest mom-friends for 18 hours of shop til...
Family Traditions and Their Importance
When I was a child, a Frosty the Snowman tree topper adorned our Christmas tree each year. It was nothing special, in fact, it was just three styrofoam balls glued together with pinned on eyes and nose. He wore a little black top hat and had round, black buttons down...
5 Things Failure Teaches Us
It’s been said; if your dreams don’t scare you, they’re probably not big enough. While that may be true, most of us are not so much afraid of dreaming, as we’re afraid of the results of failing big. As a counselor, I’ve seen how one of the biggest hurdles for many is...
A Christian View on Failure
What is it about failure we’re so afraid of? We are often afraid to try because we’re afraid we may fail. The truth is, we often learn more in failure than we ever learn in success. My prayer for this article is not to glorify failure, or to make light of it, but to...
How to Deal with an Empty Nest
Eighteen, or so, years ago you went through one of the biggest transitions in life, childbirth. You brought home a tiny, little bundle and have spent nearly two decades helping that little life learn and grow. You’ve been a full time chauffeur, cook, maid, coach, and...
Walls that Benefit Marriage
It's been said that in a healthy marriage your spouse should be your safety net and the one place (other than God) you should be 100% transparent. While there shouldn’t be any walls within marriage, there are a number of walls you can build AROUND your marriage: to...
10 Ways to Energize Your Marriage
Oxygen cannot be seen or smelt; yet, it’s vital to life. I happen to know this first hand from my days serving aboard a nuclear submarine. During that time, one of my jobs was to generate oxygen for the crew in order to keep them all alive. It was a rather complex...
Unhappy Ever After
What happens when our life stories don’t have a happy ending? We all love the story of the person who overcomes some great life challenge. You know the triumphant and heroic accounts shared of people, who crashed and burned, only to rise up and soar to new heights. We...