You Were Made for This

Today in "The Gift of Joy - Part 2" I need to admit that all the joy we hear around Christmas time often doesn't register with me. For me, the more melancholy Christmas carols drown out the mood of the joyful ones. The ambience around "I'll be home for Christmas" and "White Christmas" more typically characterize my emotions than "Joy to the World." My heart tend to drift the melancholy side of lif...

I don't know if you've noticed, but it seems too me there's an awful lot of talk about joy this time of year. December. The Christmas season. The Christmas carols. It's even gotten into marketing, the joy of this, the joy of that. It seems we all want joy. But for all the talk, where do we see joy and how do we get it? More joy in our life. More joy in our relationships. In this episode, and the n...

Many of us have holes in our heart. I'm not thinking of the physical kind, I'm thinking about the emotional kind. The emotional holes in our heart. I've noticed that some people never get over what's missing in their life, while other people compensate for what they don't have , and redeem this lack in their lives by filling that hole with something else that is good, and noble, and pure. In today...

Carol, my producer, said her Thanksgiving was great, and that she enjoys it more than Christmas because there's no gift buying. She said the hardest part of gift buying is getting something for the person who has everything. Well today we're going to talk about that, and hopefully solve that problem for Carol and our listeners. Today's episode is about giving a gift that you can't buy online, or i...

As I mentioned in the previous episode, this podcast is all about relationships. It's the THIS you were made for. Fulfilling, life-giving relationships is what is what we are all made for. Relationships have the power to lift us, encourage us, and give significant meaning to our lives. At the same time, they can suck the life right out of us and make us want to spend summer afternoons on the couch...