“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ― C.S. Lewis
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1. Be gentle. It’s an act of trust. 2. Trust yourself. Intuition is your brain working behind your back. 3. Get help. Sometimes things are too much. 4. Create space for yourself–use environment, time and boundaries. 5. Cocoon yourself for transformation. Survival is not enough. 6. Embrace your antagonists. Struggle, anger, and disagreements lead to […]
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How Jesus Conquered the Roman Empire – Rodney Stark Constantine adopted Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire, 325 AD. He did this because of his own personal conversion to Christianity. Many historians believe he had no choice but to at least accommodate Christians because they had grown to the place where they […]
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It’s now clear that COVID-19 is a deadly serious global pandemic. Still, C. S. Lewis’s words—written 72 years ago—ring with relevance for us. Just replace “atomic bomb” with “coronavirus.” In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to […]
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Marriage, under the best circumstances, is a crisis—one of the major crises of life—and it is a dangerous thing not to be aware of this. Whether it turns out to be a healthy, challenging, and constructive crisis or a disastrous nightmare depends largely upon how willing the partners are to be changed, how malleable they […]