Self Development
Fix One Another As I Have Fixed You
Posted On December 19, 2018

“I can’t tell her about my trouble. Even if I begged her not to tell, I know she would tell everyone she talked to. And the story she told would …

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Self Development
Are We Not All Beggars?
December 14, 2018

By Wallace Goddard  The older I get – and the longer I live in the South – the more I admire King Benjamin. “And now, for the sake of . . . …


Parenting
When We Ask the Wrong Question We Always Get the Wrong Answer 
December 14, 2018

by H. Wallace Goddard Recently I served on a panel at a parenting conference. At the end of the panelists’ presentations we invited questions from the audience. A young and earnest …


Marriage
Conflict Resolution and the Creation of Peace
December 13, 2018

Conflict Resolution and the Creation of Peace by H. Wallace Goddard “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” Nancy and I have some friends who have been …


Marriage
Taking Your Marriage From Misery to Joy
December 13, 2018

Mom says I was a pleasant baby. As I grew, I must have become less pleasant. I remember spending a lot of my growing-up years annoying and battling my siblings. …


Self Development
Would You Rather Be Right or Be Good?
July 16, 2018

The default setting for human minds is evaluation. We are constantly evaluating what people say and do. A family member exclaims: “It’s a beautiful day!” and we immediately check the …


Self Development
Choosing the Soundtrack of Our Lives
July 9, 2018

In movies, there is periodically a discordance in the soundtrack that warns us that something terrible is about to happen. It makes us feel unsettled. We usually don’t notice the …


Self Development
Thinking Big in Family Life
July 2, 2018

An older widow was in the habit of going to the grocery store every day. She bought just a few items, hardly more than a day's supply. The …


Marriage
The Road to Marital Misery is Paved with Good Intentions
June 25, 2018

Often, we think we are acting nobly when we are actually being destructive. Some examples: Hoping to strengthen their marriage, a wife approaches her husband: “We need to talk.” Hoping to state the …


Self Development
Do You Ruminate?
June 20, 2018

“Ruminants usually have a stomach divided into four compartments and chew a cud consisting of regurgitated, partially digested food. Ruminants include cattle, sheep, goats, deer, giraffes, antelopes, and camels” (Dictionary.com). It …