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We All Have Our Stories
We all have our stories. The thing about our stories is, we are still living them. We are entangled as well as freed in our stories.
Hal Green, Ph.D., Community Contributor
- Davenport, IA
Hal Green, Ph.D., is a former professor, pastor, counselor and columnist. He has deep faith in God and humanity, and is a long-term optimist. He believes that all will be well in the end, and that we will learn and grow from adversity. Hal seeks to inspire, assist, and guide us in our daily life.
His education includes a Ph.D. in World Religions from Northwestern University, a M.Div. in Bible and Theology from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, a M.A. in Psychology from Drake University, and a B.A. in Philosophy, also from Drake University.
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Be Aware and Beware of Your Prejudices
Prejudices can be useful and timesaving, like a habitual way of thinking. But they are also dangerous and deadly to relationships.
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Master Anxiety
Anxiety always faces the what-if of tomorrow. This can generate a vivid, vexing sense that whatever comes could be beyond your control.
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Do Some Angeling
As we prepare to bring in the new year, it’s a good time for “angeling.” The holidays represent a time to reach out to others.
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Your Heart is Ageless
Though your body ages, your heart secretly remains ageless. As my body is aging, my heart is proving to be beyond age.
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Show Appreciation
These days too many of us forget to say “Please” and “Thank you.” I do not always get it done, however, but I keep on seeking to do so.
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Unleash Your Creativity.
Unleash your creativity. You are born unique, from your DNA to your fingerprints. Your creativity is the expression of your distinctive soul
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The Value of Pain
Pain is not a pleasant subject. Yet it is something every one of us faces, hopefully with breathers of relatively painless living.
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Do Not Get in the Way of Listening
Most of us get in the way of listening. Our chief difficulty is this boulder of the self we put in the middle of dialogue’s two-way path.
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Gain Control over Worry
There are things you can do to gain control over worry. I recently heard a psychiatrist detailing what we can do to work through worry.
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Habits
First we form our habits, then they form us. Habits are fixed ways of thinking, feeling and acting.
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Criticism Can Burn the Flesh of Love
Criticism can burn the flesh of love. It maims long before it decimates love.
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The Positive Outcomes of Humility
Humility can bring about positive outcomes. It can offer a solid boost toward attaining a sunnier attitude about life.
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Fidelity in Marriage
Fidelity is more than an option in marriage; it is one of the central choices which makes true marriage possible.
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Overcoming Grief
Talking about grief is as difficult as it is essential. To overcome it, you need to give voice to its many emotions.
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The Difficulty of Listening in Groups
It is not easy to listen to each other in groups. In most small groups one or another person or idea tends to dominate the meeting.
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How to Reconcile a Relationship
To reconcile a relationship is more difficult than just forgiving. It involves re-establishing harmony and trust between people.
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The Chilling Effects of Social Isolation
It turns out that social isolation chills the body as well as the soul. Isolation and loneliness are chilling.
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Faith Grants Permission to Love
Faith grants permission to love. As it takes the sun to open the petals of the flower, so it takes faith to open the human heart.
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Love is the Ground of the Soul
Love is the ground of the soul. It is a living ground, like the earth's fertile soil. We don’t create love any more than we create air.
