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It’s a challenge to have the proper level of respect in a relationship. Two different individuals from separate backgrounds and families are blending a lifetime of unique history. Therefore, it’s human nature to want to duplicate our own individual worlds. However, relationships demand that we adjust two worlds and combine them into a best possible…

What happens when respect exists between two people? Not just a romantic couple but friends, acquaintances or even a professional relationship? Respect could also be explained as mutual admiration. It is the lack of judging one another but rather accepting, acknowledging and celebrating another individual for exactly who God made them be. That’s an interesting…

It’s somewhat of a given that most people do not have the ability to see their own faults. This, of course, makes relationships and conflict resolution even more difficult. Let’s call this ‘the cake.’ What complicates this even further is that most relationships lack truly great communication. Let’s call this the ‘icing on the cake.’…

In general, when life throws adversity our way, we attack it and solve it as an individual. Somehow in marital problems, we embark on a never-ending quest to solve a problem that involves not one individual but two. It’s a tremendous and detrimental mistake. No one can force another person to grow and evolve in…

We make our way into the church. What is a church to those of us who believe? It is a time for beginnings at baptism. A time for coming of age at confirmation. A time for joining of lives in matrimony. A time for saying our goodbyes when life calls us home. I listen to…

I walk through the store. I stop to look at a few candles. I grab one. I gotta! Doesn’t everyone?! I’m expecting lavender. Maybe a little citrus. You know the typical spa assortment. It smells very familiar. Childhood back to Catholic grade school familiar. This isn’t just Sunday church smell it’s old school – not…
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