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How Long, O Lord? A Meditation on Habakkuk
How long can we wait? As Christians, we read this and are still looking for God’s action. Even the coming of Jesus didn’t slow down the wickedness we see all around us. And, often times, this wickedness pervades our lives and slows us down. How long, O God?
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True Will
Ephesians 5:17 it says Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Echo's Transition
Echo was a flea-bitten gray horse, with brown speckles everywhere, and crystal clear hairs in her mane and tail. We met in October, 1976, when she was a broodmare on an Arabian farm in New York State. A beginner at riding doesn't usually start out with a novice horse, but I fell in love at first sight of her. Somehow, over the years, we learned how to have great times and not get in trouble. We enjoyed trail riding and had fun doing dressage, too. Echo loved to be ridden and to gallop across field. She was always as eager for my companionship as I was for hers.
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Writing Letters to God
Many of you come to this site because you are a Seeker. You are looking for something -- answers to a problem, a relationship, a better career, more money, and/or the return of a lover. Some of you are trying to strengthen your connection to your higher self or to God.
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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Did you ever see something go wrong around you and suddenly burst out, “How on Earth did I create that?” Really, how can bad things happen, even to the sweetest, kindest, most spiritual people on the planet? Where’s the fairness in that? The answer lies within, at your soul's level of consciousness, and is to do with transformation and your soul's desire to be of service to humanity.
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Stress 5 - Top Ten Tips on Relieving Stress
The best way to relieve stress is to prevent it before it develops. There are a few daily routines that you may implement to prevent stressful situations. You do not have any control over the circumstances causing the stress, but you do have control over . . .
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Controlling Stress For The Student
Do you feel discouraged because you are not reaching the milestones that you have given yourself in school? Are they not going through the way you thought they would? Do you feel that you are letting your parents down with the grades you are bringing home? The thing to do is to take a look inside and what is making these things happen.
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What Causes Panic Attacks?
Panic attacks occur for no apparent or clear reason. Their causes are unknown. They may happen at the most unexpected times and may strike you unexpectedly. They are sudden and spontaneous, and as such might occur when you are under severe stress or when you are quite relaxed and in restful sleep. They might occur due to your being in a situation that you intensely fear facing or experiencing, whether real or anticipated and imaginary. In other words, your phobia (irrational fear) or phobias might trigger them. You may be alone or in the midst of doing some people, you may be doing nothing or something important, when the panic attacks might occur, without any sort of warning. For instance, you might suffer a panic attack while driving or shopping or doing something else like riding in an elevator, without you having even an inkling of what is happening to you.
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Controlling Panic Attack Symptoms
When some intense fear suddenly grips you, making you feel helpless and out of control you may be under a panic attack. It could last for a very brief period of time, may be not more than ten minutes, during which your thoughts seem to be disorganized and your body appears to be disoriented, because of which you feel you are perhaps ‘going crazy’.
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Steps To Stress Reduction
Stress of often called the silent or quiet killer. We cannot see its destructive path yet over time the impact to our vital organs can be significant if efforts to reduce stress are ignored.
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Multitasking and Stress Problems
Can you do two things at once or even three? Multitasking may not be such a good thing. This article explores the potential pitfalls and gives ideas for what you can do if you are struggling to cope with too many different tasks.
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Clean Out the Clutter - Stop the Madness! Pass It on
Open space, open mind. When your physical space is open, clean and full of light, it allows your spirit to mirror that zen-like state. Imagine what being able to easily find necessary items, take care of tasks and breathe deeply in your own physical space could do for your state of mind.
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Hugs are Healing
It is clear that safe, caring physical touch is as important to our health as food, air or water. It's been amply demonstrated that newborns deprived of nurturing touch can actually die, even if their other physical needs are met. Sadly, in our culture physical touch, particularly in the form of hugs, is often seen as unsafe.
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Stress Management Strategy
I know that as we go about our lives, we need to deal with the events and circumstances that we find ourselves in. And sometimes, these circumstances are less than pleasant. In fact, sometimes they are incredibly stressful. This is a stress management strategy that I use to deal with these issues.
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Five Tips How To Eliminate Stress
There are a lot of things that bother us at work: allotted time, routine, offensive bosses, the file pile-ups, and the annoying co-workers. So to get rid of work-related stress:
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