How to Write a Love Letter
What could be more romantic than receiving a love letter? A good old fashioned, hand-written love letter is still one of the best Valentines around, but don't just save it for February. A love letter is a powerful expression any day of the year.
You don't have to be Shakespeare to write the perfect love letter. All you need to... > more
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Where Do All the Broken People Go?
“Where do all the broken people go? Third stool from the corner, that’s my place.” We’re all looking for shelter, for somewhere we belong. That need for community, for intimacy, is one of the deepest longings of the human heart. Where do you run to when the world comes crashing in?
Take the next step:
Community changes everything
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Awaken Love
Okay, that's a really corny title, but I've been thinking for a while about the verse in Song of Solomon which says, "Do not awaken love until it is ready." I think some of us have let our love be awakened too early, or too abruptly, and so it never really woke at all.
Several routes to this disastrous awakening exist. The first... > more
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Time Away: Balancing Work and Family
When you’re in a leadership position it’s not that easy to just switch off and go on vacation. But if your family doesn’t have your full attention they’ll know it and you might as well stay at work. Leonard Buhler, president of Power to Change, shares one habit he developed to create a balance that honors both work and family.
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You Are Not Alone
We all have dreams, but not all dreams come true. What do you do when the life you’re living turns out to be something very different from the life you had planned? In those awful moments when it feels like you’re completely alone, those dark times when you wonder if anyone even sees you, there is hope. You are not... > more
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3 Critical Tools for Paying Off Debt
This is the time of year when many people look at their debt situation and shudder. They dream of what it would be like to be out of debt. And, if they're brave, they begin to plan a strategy to reduce the amount of debt they carry.
They'll begin with high hopes. But many of them will quit before reaching... > more
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Find Your Way
Yoshimoto Ito considers himself a science guy. He used to have long debates with his girlfriend over the existence of God but the thing that stopped him in his tracks wasn’t an argument at all. When she said that she felt empty and wanted to have a relationship with God Yoshi was stunned. He didn’t even know that was possible.
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Finding Peace and Freedom
If I asked you to describe yourself, what would you say?
Would you...
Chasing Happiness
What do you crave? For Esther, it’s always been happiness. She chased...