Question: Sometimes I feel like I’m being overcome with worries. What can I do to stop worrying so much? Answer: Who doesn’t worry sometimes? We worry about what’s going to happen in the world. We worry about failing in school or in our work. We worry that we won’t be…
Once upon a time there was a little girl who spent her days sitting beside a pond, watching a frog on a lily pad. The little girl knew that the frog was probably a prince, and the frog—who was indeed a prince—knew that the little girl could kiss his nose…
It is widely believed that we are born with only three fears: fear of loud noises, fear of falling, and fear of abandonment. These, according to some psychologists, are hardwired into our nature; all others are acquired. Fear of spiders, fear of the dark, fear of dentists, and the rest…
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. —André Gide (French writer, humanist, and moralist; 1869–1951) Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. —Herodotus (Greek historian; 490–430 bc)
Like life itself, the Bible is full of triumphs that could just as easily have ended in disaster. If the heroes in those stories had turned and run the other way, who could have blamed them? Moses defied the world power of his day to lead his people to the…