One evening, I was sitting with my children around the dinner table. Shane was talking about his plans for the next day. Nichole was planning a pajama party. I…

The relationship just wasn’t working out, and I wanted it to so badly. I kept thinking if I just made myself look prettier, if I just tried to be…

“It seems as though everything you do for fun terrifies you,” my friend Andy said to me one day. “What’s that about?” I thought about his question. It was…

Feeling angry—and, sometimes, the act of blaming—is a natural and necessary part of accepting loss and change—of grieving. We can allow ourselves and others to become angry as we…

Once we begin chipping away at our duties, a new feeling begins. Even when we don’t want to be doing what we must, we may find ourselves almost enjoying…

Thank God for grace. Gratitude Focus: We can be grateful when we sense God’s role in our duties. From the book: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact The post Duty…

Sometimes when I have particularly dreadful duties to perform, I literally make myself sick. I might get in an accident or start feeling feverish. “If I really get sick,”…

Responding to duty separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls. Can you let go of what you would rather be doing and do something…

Many of us get confused about recognizing our true duties. Some of us may think our duty is to respond to every request. That’s not responding to duty. It’s…

Of course you’re feeling grumpy. You’re about to do something you’d rather not do. But once you get done feeling irritable, could you try to be a little lighthearted…