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Finding Relief from Heavy Burdens

In December 2012 I was asked to speak at my local church congregation’s sacrament meeting. I hadn’t planned on sharing my ‘talk’ publicly because my blog readership is made up of people from a wide variety of religious backgrounds and belief systems, and I have always striven to focus on principles and precepts that people of faith around the world all share in common. But I’ve recently felt like there may be some who would benefit from this message. First, I introduced myself… then I continued with this: I’d like to talk about two things in particular that we’ve been asked in the Bible to do – to have faith

Too much Information?

Do you ever feel overloaded with too many options, too much information, too many people telling you what to do to succeed? You’re not

Stop the World – I want to Get Off!

Has life become so fast paced that you’ve gotten sucked up into the whirlwind of it all, feeling totally out of control? Do you feel like you can’t stop long enough to catch your breath, and are you racing on life’s treadmill that often seems to be going nowhere? At some point you have to ask yourself, “What’s the point??” Even if you have a pretty good sense of what life is all about, and you are confident about its purpose, you can fall into the trap of living frantically day in and day out to meet deadlines, obligations, and expectations. When you’ve had enough of that, and something inside you says, “You were born for