Be willing to take advice

Generally speaking people don’t take advice, even good advice. This is true even when the advice is free and when it’s offered with love. Think about yourself. How often do you really, honestly take someone else’s advice? How often do you say to yourself, or out loud, “That’s a great idea. That’s a much better...

Forgiveness as a gift…

A teacher once told each of her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to school. For every person they'd refuse/refused to forgive in their life's experience, they chose a potato, wrote on it the name and date, and put it in the plastic bag. Some of their bags were...

The Cookie Thief

To understand God, stand under God

Can we finite beings ever understand infinite God? By our capacity, No. By God’s grace, Yes. Let’s see how. God is like the sun, whereas we are like tiny sparks. Just as a spark cannot find the sun by its own illumination, the finite can never understand the infinite by its own efforts. Of course,...

Triple Filter Test

At some point or the other in our lives, we must have spoken badly about others, judged them, spread or listened to stories without confirming the facts. This is quite normal. But being a gossip-monger does no good; it in fact only hurts others and destroys our credibility. Gossip or rumor can be easily stopped...

Better Light a Candle than Curse the Darkness

Once, a king wanted to test the attitude of his citizens during a crisis. One night he placed a big stone in the middle of the road and he hid himself.  As the day began people began their chores. The moment they saw the big stone, which was causing disturbance they started cursing the stone and...

Become less “controlling”

“Controlling” refers to unhealthy attempts to manipulate the behavior of others, having the need to control your environment, and becoming defensive or anxious when other people don’t behave to your specifications – the way you think they should be. To be controlling means you are preoccupied with the actions of others and how those actions...

A Lesson from the Geese

Have you ever wondered why migrating geese fly in a 'V' formation? As with most animal behavior, God had a good reason for including that in their instincts. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. In a V formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% more flying range...