With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I wanted to share one of the most powerful and meaningful explanations on love that I have found to be true. In his book, The Five Love Languages,1 author Gary Chapman describes five of the main ways love is communicated—through words, touch, receiving gifts, acts of service, […]
I was inspired to write this blog from an email I received from a church. The article talks about how God’s love is total and unconditional. It goes on to say that Jesus loved unconditionally and without conditions. So why do we place conditions on the love we expect from others and even ourselves? I […]
Buried Wounds Deep wounds can erupt at any time Rooted somewhere in the dark tunnels of the past. We try to escape but are trapped by the hurt The buried wounds of a forgotten time long ago. When the pains of the past are photographed onto our souls Like negatives imprinted within our bodies. As […]
A Letter To Love Poem Dear Love, Hello my dear. It’s been a long time, And I want you to know that I am here, For I am always with you. Always! You may not feel me in your times of fear, Loneliness or despair, But I am there. For I […]
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman Gary Chapman wrote The Five Love Languages where he describes that each of us communicates love differently. Gary is a marriage counselor and gives seminars on improving marriages. This topic is perfect with Valentine’s Day around the corner. His book can help you learn how you and others […]
I am reading the book Writing as a Path to Awakening by Albert Flynn DeSilver. One of the writing exercises is to write a poem. I thought, a poem? Writing a poem is going to help me with writing? I haven’t written a poem since my creative writing class in high school. But when he prompted […]
The loss of someone will always be with you. You learn to deal with it eventually, but the grief comes up at the most unexpected times even years later. It may be while you are riding in a car and a song comes on that makes you remember that person. Or when you are watching […]
This story is about a mother’s unconditional love for her son. In 2012 Marty O’Connor fell down the stairs and became quadriplegic. His mom quit her job and moved from Florida to California to make her son’s dream come true. For the last 2 years, his mom, Judy, has taken her son to class everyday […]
This weekend I was blessed to attend a seminar given by Anita Moorjani. In 2006, Anita had end stage cancer and fell into a coma. The doctors said that she probably wouldn’t make beyond the next 36 hours because her organs were failing. Anita then had an NDE (near death experience) and crossed over into […]
In the book The Noticer by Andy Andrews, he describes that there are four main dialects on love. These dialects are how we communicate our love to one another but also how we feel love in return. If a loved one expresses their love for you in the way they understand love, and you don’t […]