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“Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.” – Jill Jackson Miller and Sy Miller I can so easily work myself into a dither. The opportunities are many: There’s a hairline crack in the granite kitchen countertop — perceptible only if one knows it is there. My partner […] Early in our marriage, I sometimes worried that my feelings of affection for my spouse tended to wax and wane. Sometimes I felt delicious affection for him and other times I wanted to be left alone. Where was the “happily ever after?” I remember actually praying for help to love my partner again. My […] I’ve heard it said that taking offense can be seen as “building a fence” between myself and another. I need only reflect on the last time I took offense to know how true this is. All meaningful conversation is blocked until I become open enough to consider my own role in an interaction. Am I […]
No one can put you down without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt – I used to think of the phrase, taking offense, as one word or one thought until a friend points to a deeper way to look at it. She suggests I look at the meaning of each word separately. Taking her […] |
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