Monthly Archives: October 2014

Five Tips to Reduce Anxiety and Depression

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0561. Develop a healthy habit. Growing a healthy habit may help to displace an unhealthy one.
2. Be open-minded about the benefits of medication to reduce worry or irritability, especially if your moods are creating conflicts in relationships or problems at work.
3. Consider counseling as way to unpack and examine your deeper feelings, ones that are not discussed in most day-to-day relationships.
4. Strengthen your social ties. Call an old friend or have breakfast with someone in the family.
5. Make a goal to grow spiritually over the next year. Then meditate on how your behavior may reflect that change.

Comfort in Grief – Spiritual Perspectives

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photo (57)In times of grief, a view of heaven may help.  Here are three images of God that illustrate the comfort that awaits the children of God.

The prophet Isaiah’s view of heaven included a vision of God as a kingly figure sitting on a throne, with flowing robes filling the temple and angels surrounding him with praises of his holiness (Isaiah 6:1-3).  How amazing it must be to dwell in his presence.

The apostle Mark described the presence of Jesus with children: ”And he took them in his arms and blessed them…” (Mark 10:16).  Jesus, as God among us, provided a glimpse of eternal heavenly compassion.

In my own mind, I like to imagine God as a loving father, sitting on his throne, with flowing robes billowing off of his shoulders and filing a heavenly temple.  I like to imagine all of his children sitting on his lap (it’s a big lap).  Our heavenly father looks down into the eyes of each one of us, in a way that fills our minds with amazement at his love and eternal provision for our souls.