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My First Encounter with Self-Compassion

My First Encounter with Self-Compassion

Adulthood, Meditation

Self-compassion: I loosely define self-compassion as caring about myself at least as tenderly as I care for my friend or my dog or my houseplant. (I have one.  It’s a red one.  That’s all I know about it.  I don’t care very much about it.  But at...
Bill Gothard’s Character Clues

Bill Gothard’s Character Clues

0-10 Childhood in Iowa

As a child, I sat up eagerly in my lower bunk bed each night as my dad quizzed me and my brother on several scripture memory verses and Bill Gothard’s 49 Character Clues. After he shuffled the deck of Character Clue cards, he would read a character trait and...
Protected By Uncertainty

Protected By Uncertainty

Adulthood

From the first meeting of my first Personal Exploration Space: On page “IX” of Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl says, “He who has a WHY to live for can bear almost any HOW.”  During my recent depression, I relied heavily on the...