12/21/22 It’s almost Christmas, my friends, and I pray you are surrounded by so much joy this season! Joy is better than happy. And that’s what we’re going to talk about. But if you’ve been listening in for a while, you know that “Joy: Better Than Happy” is the title of Episode number 63 that I recorded the week of Christmas last year. And here’s the deal - exactly what I covered last year is exactly what I felt prompted to talk about again this year. Hence, Joy: Better Than

5/11/22 So, maybe you recognize this from a scripture in the Bible but you’re going, “Wait, I don’t remember this talking specifically about Mothers.” Well, true. The scripture is from Matthew 5:4 that says, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” It truly includes all people - ALL people who mourn. But we’re just coming off of Mother’s Day, and I’ve encountered a lot of Mother’s who are mourning. So, I wanted to talk about that today. Some of these are Mo

4/6/13 It’s true. And you know this. We’ve been saying “That’s not fair” since we were in elementary school. Whether that’s because we were told we have to share our candy with our younger sibling, or that we couldn’t go to the high school party everybody else got to go to. Life’s not always fair. This is the third of the Five Givens in Life. These come from David Richo’s book Five Things We Cannot Change…And The Happiness We Find By Embracing Them. In it, he talks a lot abou

11/24/21 Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I struggled with wanting to put out a message to “other people” about how to care for the broken and the sorrowful this holiday season. But I’ve already covered that in a bonus episode called So You’ll Know…During The Holidays. The “So You’ll Know” episodes are for those of you who are wanted to know how to care for someone who has had a loved one who has passed away. I talk about what to say, or not to say; what to do, or not do. And just g

10/27/21 It is really hard to love your life if you’re not feeling content or feeling really good about every part of it. It’s why many people go outside of their marriages, or circle of friends, or even out of their religion looking for something to make them feel better so that they could really feel like they love their life. So, I thought I’d talk about how I’ve discovered to feel better about ALL of it, and how my life is turning out to be the life that I truly love. And

9/15/21 Another holiday came. Labor Day. It’s just a day, right? But it’s a day when a lot of people had the day off from work - a nice long, three-day weekend to enjoy family and friends. I really hope that was you, my friend. I was so excited that my daughter came home from her new job in a city 3 hours away. I believe I told you a episodes earlier that she had been living with me since I’ve moved into my new house a year ago. Three weeks ago she moved away and I felt just

9/8/21 This episode is going to be shorter than normal, I think. Mainly because I only have a few words to say on today’s topic. But also because I’m in a real-life centrifuge of emotions about it. Soooo, I had a message from my podcast host saying that my last episode “On Being Pursued: I Said Yes” is blowing up. It’s had more listens in 48 hours than all my other episodes. And I think I know what’s going on. The comments I’ve received from some people was that they were rea

9/1/21 I had a completely different episode ready to record for today’s podcast as a response to last week’s topic on being pursued. And I’ll have to push that out one more week, because I feel so compelled by all the death and the tragedy in Afghanistan that is currently impacting our nation’s military families, that I’d like to address just a portion of it that hits home for me. When I see the photos of the cargo planes filled with United States flag-draped caskets I am sad