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13. Pick your battles. Or, better yet, become a pacifist codependent who ignores your battles. No one will mind. Plus: Check out Therese’s 7 quick ways to calm down.

Matthew 24:32-44 32 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will…

[32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: [33] So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. [34] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not…

Welcome to Nancy Guthrie’s guided journal “Hoping for Something Better,” which she based on her book of the same title (Tyndale 2007). New journal entries will appear in your profile Monday-Saturday for 6 weeks. If you missed any so far, stay subscribed to this feed and you can begin when it starts over. Be sure…

“Please pray for a financial miracle. I am about to lose my home.” –from Beliefnet member dennisangels Add your prayers now

When man completes a product, his relation to it ends; but God’s power continues to permeate His creatures. –Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, “Tanya” Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,’ edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.

To forgive is to acknowledge fallibility–my own or another person’s. Perhaps forgiveness can be real without being total–a forgiveness where resentment still lurks in some corner, but does not triumph. Does this deserve the name of forgiveness? Discuss a situation in your life when you forgave but remained angry and resentful. As you write, look…

12. “Fun” spelled backward is “NUF”: No Use Fighting! Plus: Relax with some new Christmas music.

Joy is the true gift of Christmas, not the expensive gifts that call for time and money….Let us pray that this presence of the liberating joy of God shines forth in our lives. –Pope Benedict XVI

Like a mirage in the springtime, the mind is found bewildered; animals imagine water but there is no reality to it. There is here nothing but thought construction, it is like an image in the air; when they thus understand all, there is nothing to know. –adapted from the Lankavatara Sutra, translated by D.T. Suzuki…
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