This morning I was thinking about the difference between happiness and joy and I ran across a summary of a book entitled “Happy Brain”, written by neuroscientist Dean Burnett. Burnett’s says happiness is an emotion that is formed deep in the brain which as sort of a reward mechanism, that [...]
We would probably agree that there are few things we have in common with everybody, right? But we do and it is that we all need sleep each day. Sleep is a necessity for the human body to repair, restore and energize itself. The key to whether I had a [...]
Sometimes we think about the word needy with negative connotations, don’t we? I am not talking about the the disabled, downtrodden or poor people who definitely need our help, I am talking about the word used to describe each other. We don’t want to be needy, we want to be [...]
Gravity is the downward force that pulls objects to each other. On earth, gravity is why we come down when we jump off something. The principle was discovered by Albert Einstein in his “theory of general relativity” in 1907. Gravity also holds the planets in orbit around the sun and [...]
If I mention the word “waiting room” what thoughts or feelings come to mind? My guess is that they are not pleasant or positive, right? It probably depends on whether it’s the IRS, the hospital, the doctors office waiting on the results of tests, or something else that could be [...]
I know that today there are some of GOD’s people whose struggle, is or has been so hard, that they are barely hanging on to their Faith in GOD. If you ever saw the old movie “Cliffhanger”, it began with a mountain helicopter rescue crew, trying to rescue a climber [...]
In 1998 there were a series of deadly tornadoes that hit Nashville and continued east for 28 miles, leaving destructions in its wake. I was fifteen miles east of Nashville watching live coverage of the damage in Nashville, when we were warned to take immediate shelter in the basement, and [...]
Have you ever heard the phrase “GOD helps those who help themselves”? The phrase underscores the necessity for people to take self-initiative and has been popular in the self-help community since the English version of this quote was penned by Algernon Sydney, an English politician in the 1600’s. Even [...]
Here is something you may not know, when trying to repair some old brick steps, you need to soak the bricks before applying mortar. Why you say? A dry brick will suck the water out of the mortar and the mortar will crumble. How do I know? I watched a [...]
If there is one thing I have learned during my current healing season, it is that the battles we face in life are not just physical, but they are spiritual. We may even feel alone and that the evil forces that surround us have overwhelming odds. That is precisely the [...]
