Archive for October 2009

Have A Stress-Less Life Today

I’ve never been known as the person who looks ahead in a project. You know, the person who sees what they need to do and schedules an organization technique that would make the project easy and ready to turn in on time without a lot of rushing about. One word can sum me up pretty [...]

Altars and Sacrifices

Commitment leads to an altar and sincerity to sacrifice. We were blessed this week at Acts II Ministries, my home church, by the ministry of Bro. & Sis. Ricardo Gonzalez. I’d like to share the message of a couple sermons that ministered to me. The first message was that whenever and whatever God wants us [...]

Assaulted Identity

A psychologist named Robert Jay Lifton performed studies on soldiers who had been prisoners of war in Korean and Chinese camps. In every case, Lifton determined that the first stage of conditioning was an assault on identity: “You are not who you think you are.” This is a systematic attack on a target’s sense of [...]

Directional Disability

I’ve never been a good navigator. Though it didn’t become obvious until well after I got my driver’s license, the signs were there in elementary school. Geography was never a strong subject; My teacher’s patience was stretched trying to explain the difference between latitude and longitude, and then there’s the torment that was finding coordinates [...]