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Dealing With The Death Of Parents

Beth’s blog about parents and death prompted me to write about my experience. My father died when I was 16. It was sudden and left Mom and me reeling with shock. I didn’t have brothers and sisters to turn to but Mom and I had each other. My mother died when I was in my 30s. Hers was a battle with cancer that went on over a few years. Like Courtney, I pretty well put my life on hold. I dropped out of bible study, church and everything else I’d been involved in,but continued to read my Bible and pray … Continue reading →

Scripture Study – 1 Nephi 16:37-39

Ishmael has recently died and his children are mourning exceedingly. They regret leaving Jerusalem and wish they still lived in their fine house. I conjecture that Laman and Lemuel’s anger was stirred up as they saw their wives sorrow for the death of their father. 37. And Laman said unto Lemuel and also unto the sons of Ishmael: Behold, let us slay our father, and also our brother Nephi, who has taken it upon him to be our ruler and our teacher, who are his elder brethren. This shows a great deal of hard-heartedness on Laman’s part. To actually contemplate … Continue reading →

Nothing Cools You Off Like a Walk in the Rain

Fortunately for me, I live in the Pacific Northwest where we definitely get our share of the wet stuff. Seldom is it too stormy or too cold to get out for a walk in the rain and, as a matter of fact, residents get adjusted fairly quickly to the reality that if you wait for a sunny day to get out and about, you might be waiting a long time. As a single parent, we can often find ourselves stressed, tense, angry or overwhelmed. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING can cool a person off like a brisk walk during a … Continue reading →

What Are You Teaching Your Children About Anger?

Recently we’ve been looking at anger and how to deal with it. What are you teaching your child about anger? Look at Proverbs 15:1 and we find that ‘a gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.’ We need to not only watch our words but also the manner in which we deliver them, so we do not incite anger in others. This is true in parenting, as it is in a marriage relationship and in our churches. Years ago I went with my daughter’s school to Canberra and to Parliament House. As we sat in … Continue reading →

Putting Anger Aside in a Hurtful Situation

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I love the way when I’m writing about a topic, God provides an opportunity for me to put into practice what I am writing about. This week I found myself hurt and upset about a decision made by someone else, which affected me. When I told my husband what had happened and how I was feeling, about this incident involving another person in the community, he listened to me and then he played devil’s advocate.‘Suppose it wasn’t quite like you’re thinking. Maybe it was just a lack of communication between you and the other person,’ he said. He pointed out … Continue reading →

How To Deal With Anger

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Yesterday we looked at whether anger is a sin. I said it was not – or not always. But it can be, if we let that anger fester and do not deal with it appropriately. It’s what we do with that anger that’s important. One of our families.com members pointed out that not dealing with anger can cause other problems. Stress, depression, ulcers, heart problems, emotional and mental problems among other things could all fit into that category. So what can we do as Christians about inappropriate anger? The bible tells us ‘the Lord is ‘slow to anger and abounding … Continue reading →

Is Anger a Sin?

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Anger is an emotion many of us experience from time to time. But is anger a sin? It can be – depending on what we are angry about and what we do with that anger. But anger isn’t always a sin. It can’t be. After all we read many times that God gets angry Take a walk through any of the Old Testament books and you are likely to come up against God’s anger. Her are a few verses to get you started, Exodus 4:14, Leviticus 26:28, Numbers 11:33, Numbers 12:9, Numbers 25:4, Deuteronomy 4;25, and that’s just a few … Continue reading →

When Others Get Angry

Many of us have spent a great deal of time trying to manage and deal with our own anger in a healthy and productive way. Whether we have taken classes, seen a therapist, or just been working on what to do with leftover and new anger we might be feeling–we’ve tried to put and keep anger in its proper place. But, what happens when we are the object of someone else’s anger? Whether it is our children, our ex, or someone else in our world, it may initially seem like taking the brunt of someone else’s anger is just more … Continue reading →

Tell Them Before It’s Too Late

Sometimes God stops us in our tracks and gives us times to recharge our batteries, whether we like it or not. This week has been like that for me. As I’ve struggled with the flu, it’s been a case of doing the essentials. Anything else has had to be put on hold. So, it’s been a week of bible study and prayer, writing my blogs but little else, and doing crosswords, reading or watching DVDs, when the head could not focus on print. This means several of my blogs have, or will, result from movies I’ve watched. One was ‘The … Continue reading →

Too Many Baby Boomers are Facing Alzheimer’s

A new report from the Alzheimer’s Association has some bad news about the future of Alzheimer’s disease. Right now, more than five million Americans are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease — including as many as 250,000 people under the age of sixty-five. By 2010, the Alzheimer’s Association predicts that there will be five hundred thousand new cases reported each year. By 2050, the Alzheimer’s Association predicts that there will be one million new cases of Alzheimer’s disease annually. The bad news focuses especially on baby boomers. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that ten million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s disease in their … Continue reading →