February 2020

Listen to these and tell me if they make any sense, “I am frustrated with my weight, so I overeat.” “I don’t like where I am in life right now, so I spend an awful lot of time procrastinating and dreaming about being somewhere else.” “I worry that I may lose the person I love, so I withhold affection from them, so if they should leave, it won’t hurt as bad.” There…

Every year we hear the unfortunate news of someone who lost everything in a storm, and it is a reminder that no matter how hard we try, we can’t prevent all accidents and tragedies. We are only human, and we can’t see the future—but what if we did know about a tragedy before it happened? Would we do things differently? Would we get out of a building if we knew…

In ancient days, if a small country was threatened with war, they generally had two options: they could pay the nation who wished to overthrow them a great deal of money to turn around and head home, or they would often go to a more powerful nation and pay them to fight in their stead. he only time this becomes a real problem for the smaller nation is if the…

Years ago, a teacher carried out an experiment with his class. He passed out a picture to each of his students, and half of the class received a picture of an older woman while the other half received a picture of a younger woman. He asked each student to study the details of the picture for five minutes. Afterward, he projected an image on the screen and asked…

In Biblical times when a family wanted to put down roots in a land, one of the first things they needed to do was dig a well. A well was their lifeline; it enabled them to plant the crops that would provide food, and it was how they sustained themselves and their animals. Without this well, everything around the family was guaranteed to wither and die. This one…