When negative circumstances loom large, it’s easy to fall into despair! Then others come along — you know the type, relentlessly positive people — and they claim “happiness is a choice.” Should we buy that? What does it even mean to say “happiness is a choice”?
Category Archives: Top Five Regrets
Uprooted
We live in a highly-mobile consumer-oriented culture that teaches us to travel light and make few binding ties. Friends become fungible, like consumer goods. But that way of being comes at a heavy cost. We miss the benefits of enduring, life-long relationships. This sermon wrestles with all that, considering the role friendships should play in […]
Stuffing It All Inside
We all have a tendency to do it. Often it’s easier to stuff our feelings inside and present a false front to the world. We say what we think people want to hear instead of what we really feel — and little by little the gap between our ‘true self’ and our ‘public self’ grows, […]
Work ’til You Drop
People from around the globe say we Americans are over-the top in our obsession with work. Are we? Am I? Do I have a healthy work/life balance?
I’ve Got To Be Me!
Based on her career as a hospice nurse, Bonnie Ware has written a book entitled The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. In her book, Ware describes the most common regrets express by her patients as they look back over life. This Sunday launches a new sermon series exploring those “top five regrets” through the […]