Where wisdom fuels change
Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Dec 18th, 2008
Call it authenticity, transparency, or being human, most people appreciate when a person demonstrates an open genuineness. No one loves hypocrisy, artificial drama, or phony types. At least not for long. Most of us value Truth, however we define it. We want to trust, to know a person’s words and actions come from the heart, […]
Posted in Change & Growth on Dec 10th, 2008
I asked my husband last night about his take on the Christian idea that the man is the leader the marriage. I wanted to hear how he explained that relationship doesn’t flourish behind the prison bars of control. He first noted that we will all stand alone before God during judgment, so we are all […]
Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Sep 18th, 2008
Passions and fears tend to run high in an election year. I’ve even seen hate elevated as part of normal discussions. Amid the clamoring and finger-pointing, my Auntie M sent me this wonderful except from J. Ruth Gendler’s Notes on the Need for Beauty: The Navaho word hozho, translated into English as “beauty,” also means […]
Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Apr 14th, 2008
My husband and I learned early on in our relationship that we both carried a lot of baggage into our marriage. He thought leaving the house a mess gave me something to feel good about cleaning up like Aunt Bee in The Andy Griffith Show and that slapping me on the butt in public showed […]
Posted in Change & Growth, Protecting our Power on Apr 5th, 2008
My husband calls 2008 The Year of Truth. Each December for several years now, he has intuitively summed up the upcoming year this way. Last year was The Year of Firsts, and it certainly contained many events which were firsts for us. The Year of Truth has already impacted us greatly because some major personal […]