Don’t Postpone Joy - Especially Now "Ever spent months, even years, of your life as if they were just a phase you were going through, an extended transition, until the time when your real life would begin? Here are two simple rules: Rule #1. BEGIN AT ONCE TO LIVE. Rule #2. DON'T POSTPONE JOY." Landon
"The most amazing part of going through the darkness of divorce is the sense of joy and liberation when you move past it and into the life you were born for." ~Margot Thompson It's Christmas eve. Many of you are struggling with the darkness of divorce during Christmas. The darkness of despair. The darkness
Everyone is busy. The holidays this year have been all squished together and that means more stress. Plus, your divorce means stress x 100 (at least!) and add exhaustion and worry and sadness and loneliness and coping and anger into that mix and you have a holiday that some of
"Ever spent months, even years, of your life as if they were just a phase you were going through, an extended transition, until the time when your real life would begin? Here are two simple rules: Rule #1. BEGIN AT ONCE TO LIVE. Rule #2. DON'T POSTPONE JOY." Landon Saunders, Life That Loves to Happen
” … hope, as Chesterson said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird I’m not sure “cheerful” is the word I would have chosen in the thought above. Perhaps “gracious’ or “grace-filled” or “dignified” would be better words. I think of
Tidings of Great Joy Merry Christmas! Wishing that you ... yes, you ... feel and experience deep inside all the beauty and promise of this day. And that the same glory that was "'round about the shepherds," will be shimmering around you today, and that you will hear the same voice of
The Bright and Morning Star “Twas the night before Christmas …” It’s Christmas Eve. The Christmas story is about God coming to earth in human flesh … a baby who is himself part of the trinity God/Christ/Spirit. That’s R.A.D.I.C.A.L. thinking. That demands faith in things we cannot see
Don’t be afraid to feel all of your emotions fully. Don’t judge them. Don’t feel guilty about feeling them at both ends of the spectrum. Feeling sadness paves the way and eventually allows a true outbreaking of joy! Neither is possible without the other. “Once we have fully
