When a serious issue or a crisis comes into your life, how will you deal with it? For most of us it is a question that can only be truly answered when that something happens. Oh, we can guess and speculate how we’ll handle it…we may even talk as if we know exactly how we’ll […]
What would you do if $200,000 suddenly found itself into your lap? It is kinda like finding that wallet on the street. What would you do? Most of us have thought about that sort of scenario and wrestled with our response. I remember an event that took place in Los Angeles a while back. A 22-year […]
Here’s a quick quiz for you. > > > > 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. > > > > 2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. > > > > 3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest. > > > > 4. Name five people who have […]
“Garbage in, garbage out!” I’m sure most of us have not only heard that phrase before, but, most likely, we’ve used it ourselves. Whatever we take into our minds will likely come out of our mouths or be in our actions in some way. This is illustrated with the increased sales in tennis rackets […]
Are you a Ruminant? Say What?! I would like to take this opportunity to talk seriously about “Ruminants”. Well as you probably know a ruminant is any animal that chews its cud. Cows are the most common ones we see. Have you ever watched a cow chew the cud? Basically they eat some food and […]
“Take up the sword of humility and meekness, hold it always in your hand, and mercilessly cut off the head of our chief foe.” This incredible man of God, St. Theophan the Recluse (+1891), passed on many wonderful writings for us. Here are just a few on Humility and Love. Each section is worth pausing and thinking […]
I do hope you have benefited from this 3 part series as St. Cyprian wraps up his teaching on jealousy and envy. He gives us encouragement to persevere in our spiritual struggles. “Let us be always busied in spiritual actions that so often as the enemy approaches, however often he may try to come near, […]
Today is a great Feast Day in the Holy Orthodox Church: The Elevation of the Cross. Here are some wonderful quotes for all of us to think on during these days ahead. God does not create a cross for man. No matter how heavy a cross a man may carry in life, it is still […]
In part 2 of this marvelous teaching, St. Cyprian continues to enlighten us on what impact jealously and envy can actually have on us: “Why do you rush into the darkness of jealousy? Why do you enfold yourself in the cloud of malice? Why do you quench all the light of peace and charity in the […]
Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage (200-258) was the leading Bishop of the Church of Africa during the mid-third century. He lived at a time when to be a Christian would mean persecution and to be a leader often carried a death sentence. He was both imprisoned and executed for refusing to worship the false gods of his day. […]