Daddy, Your best friend, Pop Vickers, encouraged us to write letters to you. I’ve wanted to write, but I find my heart too scattered and too overwhelmed. I’d like to say that life settled down since your passing. Certainly we’ve learned a lesson or two about what is really, truly important. Here we are being…
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A Time for Everything
A Time for Everything Ecclesiastes 3: 1-14 3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,4 a time…
The Farmer in the Dell
In the small hours of the morning of my father’s celebration of life, I was in a state of restless sleep. In and out of sleeping, thinking, dreaming, and remembering. At around 4:30 a.m., my brain decided to remember the song lyrics to “The Farmer in the Dell.” I laughed and thought that it was…
Value-Based Affirmations
There is is this place in our brain that helps us with motivation, reward, and handling the critics. It is called the anterior cingulate cortex, or ACC. This region of the brain also has been implicated in several complex cognitive functions, such as empathy, impulse control, emotion, and decision-making. I listened to an amazing podcast…
Eirene-Peace
A recent study led me to view the word “peace” differently. I’ve often been told, and I have said to others, “If you don’t have a sense of peace about your decision, you should reconsider.” Or, “God would never place confusion in your life. He is not a God of confusion, so if you are…
Ocean Isle, NC Plum Coastal Cottage
THEME OF THE WEEK: GREAT JOY! Sunday, August 9, 2020 Travel Day “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and all the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar Today we…
30 Days to a Better Relationship
Walking to the Kindred Spirit mailbox, I had a prayerful conversation about marriage. My marriage. The marriage of my oldest daughter. My friends share their ups and downs of marriage. I noticed a theme in my reflection of “contempt.” The Gottman Institute provides marriage resources and research on contempt in our marriage. Personally, I’ve witnessed…
The Sacred: 63 Years of Marriage
This post is to honor my mother and father in 63 years of marriage. I was cooking and getting ready for their meal, when VCU called about an issue regarding my course that I teach. I told her I needed to continue cooking while we talk. “We are celebrating my parent’s 63 years of marriage…
Take a hike!
We all find ourselves searching for opportunities to experience something other than our new reality. I’m grateful beyond belief that I continue to have a job, and I can work remotely. Working remotely has been incredibly efficient for some aspects of my job. I can get up early and work all day from my office…
Listen
If you really listen, you can often understand the meaning behind the words or conversation. Dr. John Gottman discovered four negative behaviors, or “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” that spell disaster for any relationship. Learn what they are and how to avoid them. Dr. Gottman’s Four Horsemen: Stonewalling Defensiveness Criticism Contempt I was reminded…
ARRESTED BY GRACE 