Recent Articles
04/19/2017
It can be difficult to care for someone when we are at odds with their point of view. But I encourage you: remember your common ground. Remember the ties that bind you together. Remember your history with this person. Sometimes we allow one aspect of who a person is to color our opinion of the […]
02/22/2017
Are you a gossip and don’t know it? “A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.” Proverbs 11:13 “Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.” Psalm 141:3 When someone tells you his sad story or bears her raw-self, keep that confidence. Do […]
02/06/2017
If a friend said to you, “My husband or my wife is having an affair,” what would you say and do? How could you best help that friend? Nancy shares how she responded when her friend Sue said, “My husband is having an affair!” Nancy says, “Sue and her husband are dear friends of mine. […]
09/30/2016
Is it possible to be a “best friend” to all of your friends? It depends on what I mean. If I mean being each of my friends very closest friend, then definitely not. But if I mean being the best friend I know how to be to each of them, then it is possible. Do […]
06/13/2016
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that not all children can celebrate their father on Father’s Day. This might be due to abuse, neglect, or desertion. In all of these situations a relationship has been broken. A lovely young woman recently said to me, “How can I celebrate Father’s Day when I do not have a […]
05/31/2016
Editor’s Note: the following story comes to us from a woman we’ll call “Sandy.” What is Parental Alienation Syndrome? Psychology Today describes it this way: “Parental alienation involves the ‘programming’ of a child by one parent to denigrate the other ‘targeted’ parent, in an effort to undermine and interfere with the child’s relationship with that […]
10/27/2015
Do you see yourself in the following story? Recently, my husband read the novel, The Telling Room, by Michael Paterniti. It is a story about cheese, Spain, betrayal and holding a grudge. The meaning of to hold a grudge suggests an emotional deadlock, two deer stuck in antlered impasse, in thick mud that congeals as […]
