This was a great post on the concept of worry from Bay Area marriage and family therapist Lindsay Sturgeon. She blogs at apairofpennies.wordpress.com.
For those of you who read my last blog, I introduced the difference between productive and unproductive worry. This concept is really helpful for me- by even [...]
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Over the weekend, two things irritated The Burner.
The first was a Facebook post from a friend decrying his perception of the liberal media’s constant derision of Christians. Further, he specifically complained that no other religious groups receive such egregious treatment (he specifically and without irony mentioned Muslims).
The second was a more...
Lots of people close to The Burner consider him to be a grinch for not loving all the lights and garland and bows and nativity sets and fake snow and running around and carols on endless repeat. Basta! TB doesn’t need it.
However, Christmas is a backwards promise for The Burner. Not [...]
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Over a year ago, The Burner shared with you a story about worries (Motivation Monday: Monster Worries). At the time the story happened, TB was convicted and inspired by the faith of a three year-old and his trust in the Lord.
But that was over a year ago. So the worries [...]
more...Fr. Richard Rohr says his definition for a “Christian” is “somebody who has met one.” While it took The Burner a moment or two to understand, you, dear reader, surely understood immediately that Fr. Rohr meant that if you meet a Christian, you should be inspired to become one also.
There are few Christians that [...]
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The Burner family has friends who take them in on Sundays to watch football. (Complicated metaphor warning): Like a track star so far ahead of the opponent that the two appear to be even again, this family is has raced past “generous to a fault” status that it somehow circles around to [...]
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The Burner spent some time in New York City this past week for the Q Epiphany conference (more later). Before the conference began, though free time in the Big Apple meant that TB found his way to the drum beats of Zuccotti Park–the epicenter for the in/famous Occupy Wall Street protests. (OWS is protesting [...]
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