Day One Hundred Fifty-Eight of 365 – Things That Bug Me: Fit Throwers!
“You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit!” Dontcha love that? My wife recently finished a long-term counseling sub assignment at an elementary school where she worked directly with K – 2nd grade students. This particular statement came from a young kindergarten student when Vanessa instructed the young boy to take the […]
Day One Hundred Fifty-Seven of 365 – Things That Bug Me: Noise!
Peace and Quiet! I’m convinced that the world needs much more Peace and Quiet! I know that I do from time to time! We are inundated daily with constant noise from all kinds of sources! Traffic, radios, television, audio books, concerts, mp3 players, smart phones, tablets, laptops, videos on YouTube and Face Book and Twitter, […]
Day One Hundred Fifty-Six of 365 – Things That Bug Me: Incongruity!
False Advertising! That’s what Incongruity is! False Advertising! Some think of incongruity as anything that opposes their world view. That is NOT incongruity. That is disagreement! Incongruity occurs when something or someone acts in ways that are opposite of what their title implies. Let me give you a few examples. Incongruity happens when: Counselors […]
Day One Hundred Fifty-Five of 365 – Things That Bug Me: Birthdays!
Yep! You guessed it! I’m celebrating a birthday today and that is the inspiration for this post. Don’t get me wrong, I love birthdays – at least, most of the time. Birthdays are excuses to celebrate! Birthdays are opportunities to laugh, eat cake and give gifts. Birthdays also remind me that I’m aging and that’s […]
Day One Hundred Fifty-Three of 365 – Things That Bug Me: Me!
Included in the list of things that bug me is . . . ME! Sometimes . . . I’m the Problem! Dog-gone-it! As much as I hate to admit this, sometimes the “mean times” that enter my life do so as a result of choices that I make! As much as I would like to […]
Day One Hundred Fifty-One of 365 – Things That Bug Me: No Words!
No Words! This one more than bugs me. This one takes me down. It often moves me to tears. Frequently, this one causes me to experience ineptitude to a degree almost beyond repair. You see, some life experiences carry such weight and gravity that no words adequately capture the depth of emotion that accompanies them. To […]
Day One Hundred Fifty of 365 – Things That Bug Me: Untold Stories!
I love stories! Whether they are told in song, poetry, books, movies or verbally, stories move me! Perhaps that is one of the reasons I became a therapist. I find the stories people live and share, fascinating! One of the best things about stories is that we all have them! If I love stories so […]
Day One Hundred Forty-Seven of 365 – Things That Bug Me: Misogyny
I love, honor and respect women. I always have! I believe that if women ruled the world, we would live more peacefully; work more productively; govern more reasonably; learn more completely. Now I am not naive enough to believe that all women are cut from the cloth that would produce such lofty outcomes as listed […]
Day One Hundred Forty-Five – Confessions of a Recovering Bapticostal: Hitting the Pause Button
For quite some time now I’ve been posting daily about what it means to call myself a Recovering Bapticostal. I have no idea how many have read posts from this series and I’m not really concerned about that. Oh, when I’m honest with myself, I desire that thousands each day would read and be challenged […]
Day One Hundred Forty-Three of 365 – Confessions of a Recovering Bapticostal: What’s Inside
In Western Christianity, we tend to downplay our part in finding solutions to life’s problems. We tend to say that “God is everything and I am nothing.” I’ve heard that proclaimed in many ways all of which require me to put myself down. I’ve always had a problem with that. As a youngster, I never […]