Life Thoughts TodayMany taxpayers have begun receiving monthly payments as a result of the expanded child tax credit for 2021. What many people don’t know is that those payments are NOT just extra stimulus money. I want to answer a few important questions about the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and what you should do about it. Why Does It Matter?First of […]
A game that I personal enjoy playing is Valorant. It is a shooting game involving two teams with 5 players in each team. As far as story and in-game mechanics, this game is relatively simple. It feels like capture the flag, but much more artistic. You can hop on after work, or during some down […]
(Norman Maclean, 1976) This is one of my all-time favorite books (and movie). I first came across it in one of my family therapy classes & have read the book and watched the movie several times. The story revolves around two brothers, their parents, and the choices they make, leading them down very different paths, […]
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.“ During this time of enforced self-isolation, searching my bookshelves to find one of my books, bought and as yet unread, relegated to dusty shelves, I ran across a book subtitled, “Four Who Wrote in […]
Beowulf, required reading for many of us in high school, is an Anglo Saxon epic tale touted as purely pagan work, hailing from England. The primary reference for this article is, Beowulf: a Prose Translation Introduction (Penguin Classic, David Wright). I find it not only the easiest to understand, but also the most thorough and […]
I released two books last year based on the biblical concept of there having existed a prior earth age. Called “the first world age,” it is spoken about as having been a golden age, when the angels having first been cast down to this time space dimensionality, ruled here upon the earth. In mythology this […]
It’s not like I didn’t want to have a daily time of Bible reading. I did. It’s not like I thought praying on the run when I remembered it in emergencies was the best way to develop a rich prayer life. I didn’t. But how in the world was a busy mother of two children […]
Hospital room a few days after Thanksgiving, my sister and I on either side of a bed, watching the frail, failing body of our mother. Darkness broken only by the glow of machines designed to monitor the presence, or absence, of life. Mom has been unresponsive for a few days now. Faint echoes of hospital […]
Backstory: I have learned that sometimes you just have to buy a nice pair of shoes for your kiddo because they simply last longer… I bought my eight year old a very nice, very expensive pair of Nike, all leather basketball shoes about a year ago. Since then, I’ve replaced the shoelaces 5x, hand washed […]
Living in globally unprecedented times has wrought worldwide disastrous statistics regarding anxiety, depression and suicide, bringing heavy hearts to those of us in the “helping professions.” DefinitionAnxiety is generally described as feeling worried, nervous, unease; usually because of an upcoming event or uncertain outcome. This is a normal emotion, it is your brain’s way of […]
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