Successful long-term relationships are created through small words, small gestures, and small acts. John Gottman, Eight Dates: A Plan for Making Love Last Forever[i] Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. James 1:19 (The New Living Translation) What Action would […]
COVID-19
5 Ways to Enrich and Empower Marriage During Covid!
Covid-19 has caused many challenges for everyone, and for many married couples, including ours, it has generated new challenges! Even though the Covid curtain is slowly rising, there will be lasting impacts on relationships as we move forward. My deep desire is to provide you will tips and tools that will help you be more […]
How to Overcome the Dragons and Faith-Stealers of Fear
Are you managing fear or is it managing you? In How to Overcome the Dragons and Faith Stealers of Fear you will learn to practical things you can do to manage fear and its cousin anxiety in a more effective way. “Here be dragons” (Hic sunt dragones) warned ancient mariners and explorers of dangerous and unexplored territories. […]
How to Minimize Covid Fatigue!
How to Manage COVID-19 Fatigue Stress by John Thurman, M.DIV., M.A., LPCC American’s have been drastically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Disruptions at work, business, education, healthcare, relationships, and places of worship, and the overall economy have occurred across all socio-economic levels. In this article I am going to show you how to minimize Covid […]
How to Have Hope This Crazy 2020 Christmas
Faith expands in tough times. With all that has gone on this year, I wanted to show you how to have hope this Crazy 2020 Christmas! Are you ready for Christmas? I am! Am while I am not Buddy the Elf, the Christmas season has always been a time of celebration for our family in […]
How to Keep the Covid-19 Grinch from Stealing Your Christmas!
“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” -C.S. Lewis This post, How to keep the Covid – 19 Grinch at Bay This Christmas, will give you some additional tools to help you have an awesome holiday. This is undoubtedly going to be a Holiday Season […]
How to Overcome the Fear of Pandemic Fatigue
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” (Matt. 6:27). There is a very real danger of you and I experiencing “Pandemic Fatigue,” if we fail to take care of ourselves. In this article I will show you how to overcome the fear of pandemic fatigue This week marks the […]
5 Ways to Use Gratitude as a Powerful Stress Buster
“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” C.K.Chesterson “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is Good! His faithful love endures forever.” Psalm 107:1 Are you sick and tired of the tediousness of the COVID restrictions? Are you feeling worn down being a teleworker who is restricted to your living space? Are you struggling in your role […]
Gratitude: An Antidote to COVID-19 Stress!
“The only way you learn persistence is by going through challenging times.” What toll are the stressors of this COVID-19 chaos having on you, your relationships, and your business? At this very moment, as you read this, how has the stress produced by the past few months impacted your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being? How much […]
Overcome the Fear of COVID-19
There is a darkness on the edge of town, and it is killing people, so let’s pull together and defeat it. Tom Hank’s In today’s article I show you how to overcome the fear of COVID-19. Have you ever noticed that panic tends to bring out the worse in us? Instead of fear and panic, […]