Posts Tagged ‘forgiveness’
Martin Luther King Day
Respect. Peace. Freedom. These words are easy to throw around – I’ve done it. But I still know their weight when it counts. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man who stood up and spoke against the status quo. He challenged the ‘ways things were’ and dared to dream of something much better. A […]
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A quick post before I dash (read: meander slowly) off to try to get my errands run. This morning I was feeling particularly slow. Slow enough that the draw of my bed seemed too strong, and that I was attached to an invisible anchor that weighed more than my poor beleaguered heart could break itself free from. […]
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Tags: anchor, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, bipolar, bipolar II, dad, expectations, explorers, father, forgive, forgiveness, guilt, honest, honesty, kids, mood, mood disorder, realistic, salvation
You Are Here
It sounds like such an obvious statement: ‘You are here’. Of course I am! Where else would I be? But that’s the catch. Where do we spend our attention most of the time? Worrying about dinner, or the bills, or whether your mate is still angry with you for what you did/didn’t do, said, […]
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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, breathe, Buchwald. Camus, Coelho, dad, dwelling, expectations, father, forgive, forgiveness, future, guilt, kids, moment, mood, mood disorder, past, present, realistic
Guilt – It’s Who You Are
Guilt is defined by many to be the feeling of doing something wrong or an inability to meet some standard. As a dad with a mood disorder I often feel immense guilt because of the great expectations I have for myself. I’m sure most parents feel this guilt about some things, but I can tell you that […]
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