Stress

  • Seeking Knowledge: A Time to Wander and a Time to Wonder

    I slept on the downstairs couch despite having a full-size bed and a room of my own almost directly above where I slept until high school. Why is that, you ask? It’s because that’s where the television was located. But, before you start thinking all those thoughts that inevitably point to TV rotting the…

  • The Curse of the To-Do Checklist

    The Curse of the To-Do Checklist

    Are you a list maker? Do you write down everything you need to get done because it’s the only way you can keep organized or make sure everything gets done? Do you begin each list item with circles, squares, hearts, maybe a mixture? I… am… a… list maker. And it helps. But it can…

  • Why Emotional Hoarding Neglects Jesus & How to Fix It

    Why Emotional Hoarding Neglects Jesus & How to Fix It

    We hear a lot about the hoarding of physical things, but we don’t often consider hoarding in an emotional context. And rarely – if ever – do we consider its relationship to the Cross or Christ’s atonement for our sin nature. In many regards, we harbor a lot of emotional baggage that not only…