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    wonder

    Get Your Wonder Back: Why Awe is Crucial

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    The entire world is out to steal your wonder. I think it is because to experience wonder is to participate in hope, faith, and a love of the unquantifiable. The world likes everything nailed down, stretched out on an index card and pinned, kept under a glass case. I read recently that physicists and mathematicians were more likely to believe in God than others in the hard sciences. Physicists and mathematicians, I suppose, spend their days contemplating the incomprehensible, yet intricately designed universe. This particular study went on to say that medical doctors, too, were more likely to believe in…

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    The Healthy, Happy Perfectionist

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    Most people have a perfectionist living somewhere inside of them. Perfectionism manifests itself in different streams according to the values of the person. However, a true perfectionist knows immediately that this blog is about them, and is avidly reading this to make sure they are doing perfectionism perfectly. I am writing this in defense of perfectionism, though I don’t particularly consider myself a perfectionist. Just in certain areas. My husband says I am a type B+; I think he is a type A-. I think, however, that we settled pretty easily into the A and B types when we first…

  • Burden-bearing
    Burden-bearing

    #Triggered: Burden-Bearing without Bondage

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    Burden-bearing is a spiritual gifting which many possess but few know how to manage. Natural empaths, those of us who enter easily into the suffering of another, can become depressed and even cynical if we do not understand the nature of the gifting with which we were probably born. To first identify if you are a burden bearer, ask yourself the following questions: Do you feel what others are feeling? Can you accurately identify others’ emotions, sometimes to the point where they feel you can practically read their minds? Do you find yourself unable to face people sometimes because you…