In the United States alone, the self-help industry; books, seminars, infomercials, personal coaches, audio and video products, was an $11 Billion industry in 2013. This according to Katheryn Shultz from an article in in New York Magazine from January 6th of this year. (New York Magazine (New York Media, LLC)....
Look up songs about "love" and you'll discover so many you won't be able to count them all. Just as an example, the #1 Love Song of "all time" on Billboard magazine is "Endless Love" by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross. This obsession with love is understandable since it is...
"It is a great achievement not to be attracted by things. But it is a far greater achievement to remain dispassionate in the face both of things and of the conceptual images we derive from them." St. Maximos the Confessor Isn't that great? The ability to be free from a slavery...
"It ain't how you start, it's how you end that matters!" With that, a wise man began instructing a young man about the power of endurance, patience, integrity, and perseverance. You see, the young man was born in a home racked with division. His mother and father had split up...
OK, I admit it. I'm a hypocrite. No, really. No need to protest. It's good for me to come clean about my own hypocrisy. I know exactly what I need to do to improve my health and lose weight and get in better shape (although I do insist that we...
My grandmother use to tell me "Honey, don't worry; truth will out." And another one she'd remind me of was "The proof's in the pudding." Never quite understood what pudding had to do with it, but she seemed to be very sure of herself! In our culture of instant gratification,...
Growing up in the religious world of my friends and family, from my earliest years I remember hearing talk and sermons about Jesus coming again. In fact, I would say that this subject competed with the other central message I heard in church - getting other people to become...
The Gospel of Luke 6:17-23 At that time, Jesus stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their...
There's something about intimacy that scares us to death AND becomes a central hunger for our lives. From sociological studies showing modern society becoming more and more lonely, to small groups of Baby Boomers forming support groups to talk about death and dying, to the perennial stories of men and...
St. Timothy was a young, spiritual son of St. Paul, and Paul had placed Timothy as the head of a local Christian community. Now Paul is writing to his spiritual son to encourage him as he serves his first parish. Listen to what Paul tells Timothy: "TIMOTHY, my son, you...
