Tag: relationship
The dance of being a caregiver
There is a lot of learning in taking care of the elderly. Boundaries are understood at an ever deeper level. For instance, when to step in and to know when doing anything is inappropriate and even harmful. No matter the age, if the mind is still sharp, all that can be done is to try… Read More ›
Spousal Privilege
Since I’ve been on vacation, I’ve been watching an unusual amount of television. Over the past few days, I’ve been struck by the volume of material about sex. Talk shows, tv shows, even supposedly conservative networks like Fox News seem to be obsessed with the topic. The mentality of these talk show hosts seems to… Read More ›
Relationship
No relationship is possible, if it has any value or depth at all without some degree of trust. It can also be said that all relationships that are meaningful will have times of crisis, in which the relationship can either die, or deepen, after a rift has been made. Those who drop out too quickly, I feel… Read More ›
Seven Facts a Wife Should Consider About Her Husband
As a wife you should never, I mean ever, underestimate the power of your words in regards to how you speak to your husband. You should be his PRIMARY source of encouragement. The words you speak to him and about him in front of others carry more weight than you could ever imagine! . …. Read More ›
Ten Facts Men Should Consider About Their Wife!
Before she was your wife she was God’s daughter…and He is very concerned about how someone treats His girl! Women are responders, so if there is friction/conflict in the relationship she is most likely responding to something that is off center…and it is going to take an actual conversation where you use words to figure… Read More ›
What we share
One way to help alleviate the pain caused by others is to think about them without rancor; to see them in the light of what is shared. We all have a past that has some pain and sorrow connected to it. This does have an affect on how we relate and respond to others, but… Read More ›
Splinter
The splinter in the other, the log in my own eye, what does that mean? Also, will we be judged in the same manner that we judge? Are these sayings related, if so what do they indicate? I don’t think they were stated to engender fear, no, but insight yes, about the nature of reality…. Read More ›
Our search and our faith
When things get dark, then it is time to draw on faith. If difficult, no matter, for our faith though a gift, is also a choice, one that needs to be made over and over again. We live in a world wherein any belief system has to be based on a certain level of faith…. Read More ›
Scripture Should Lead to ‘Personal Encounter With the Lord of Life’
VATICAN CITY (EWTN News/CNA)—Pope Benedict XVI spoke today about Psalm 119 as a wonderful discourse on the breadth and depth of man’s relationship with God. The Psalmist’s song “voices the range of sentiments which fill the hearts of those who pray: praise, thanksgiving, trust, supplication and lament, all within the context of a heartfelt openness… Read More ›
The Nature of Family
The family has always been considered as the first and basic expression of man’s social nature. Even today this way of looking at things remains unchanged. Nowadays, however, emphasis tends to be laid on how much the family, as the smallest and most basic human community, owes to the personal contribution of a man and… Read More ›