Combating Your Personal Stress

Recently I conducted a survey of my book and article readers. I wanted to know how this largely Catholic and professional group viewed current stressors

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The Master of Dust

As the Extraordinary Form of the Mass progressed the priest started to intone the Gospel. He spoke in Latin, reading from the Gospel situated on

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On Rocky Ground

\”Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep… And some seed fell on

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Are You Really Successful?

A politician once asked me flat out for bribery money when I clerked for a law firm in the Philippines. I played dumb, quit my

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Then God Spoke to Me

Some stories are better left untold. I am about to say was filed under that category for the past sixteen months. But I have come

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Happiness Happens

March 2, 2011 As usual, I volunteered for the easier task of waking up our son and his older sister. My wife was left with

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A Mother\’s Legacy

Many years ago I received a book from my in-laws as a present for Mother’s day. It was a diary of sorts for me to

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Prelude to Love

I have one teen-aged daughter who would love to be a cynic, but is wise enough to know she shouldn\’t be. Occasionally though, she has

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