How The Chinese Communist Party Exerts and Maintains Control
In order to exert its totalitarian control, the CCP must have complete access to personal information. To do business in China, foreign corporations will help the CCP by turning over information from private email accounts, chat room conversations and other information. The CCP will use this information to make an ‘arrest’. The victim disappears either temporarily or permanently. Whether anyone hears what happens next is a dice roll.
Gun Control Will Solve Nothing
Blaming guns is the simple and lazy response to crime in the United States. Unsurprisingly, it is also wrong.
Grief May Not Always Be About The Death Of A Loved One
I have seen grief at its worse. A friend of mine lost her husband at sea, and the body was never found. She did not know whether to let go or continue to cling to her hope that someday they would meet again. With no body to bury, she hanged onto hope and despair. After three years, she started to realize she would never see her husband again. Her bereavement took a toll on her work, relationships with friends and family. Her family got professional help for her. When her be…
Have You Ever Lost Something Or Someone?
Bereavement refers to people who experience the loss, through death, of a loved one or someone who has importance to them. Bereavement is a normal experience in a sense to each and every one of us since it occurs in the course of our lifetime. The loss is very depressing to some and this could lead into inconsolable grief and oftentimes, a long period of mourning. Nevertheless, bereavement causes the immobilization of psychological symptoms, occasionally, abrupt or cause diff…
How To Survive Losing A Spouse
One of the worst things that can happen in life is losing a spouse. How do I know? It happened to me—and in the prime of my life…
When it happens, many thoughts and emotions whiz through your mind…
Only four months earlier, my husband and I had completed a Christian counseling course. One of the major topics addressed was how to deal with grief…
Now I was living it.
It is true that there are natural steps we go through in the grief process. The timing and length o…
When Change Happens (Dealing with Loss and Grief)
The time after loss and change is volatile and confusing. However, crisis means opportunity. When we understand the dynamics of change and the process of grief is properly handled, it’s possible for an individual to grow a great deal during this time of life. We can turn a time of loss and grief into one of strength and hope.
Expressions of Sympathy
This article explains the emotional impact of expressions of sympathy.
How much of the Bible is literally true?
A lot of people think we have to believe the Bible literally or not at all. Others think the Bible contains only stories, myths, or legends. What’s the real deal? Is there literal truth in the Bible?
The literally true writings in the Bible are generally in the form of telling about historical events, even if it’s written about differently than we write about history today. Can we believe the Bible when it comes to its history?
Alone But Not Lonely
It was Geoffrey F. Fisher who said, “In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely…”
Grief & Loss
Have you ever lost someone close to you to death? We go through a grief process that was best described by Elizabeth Kublar-Ross in On Death and Dying. In it she talks about the five stages that people go through—denial and isolation; anger; bargaining; depression and finally acceptance. The dying, as well as those who love them, go through these stages although rarely at the same time and these stages are not predictable.
You may think you are in the anger phase, then j…