With things like meditation and self-love, you can learn how to love more fully. Practicing positive thoughts can help you gain the capacity for empathy and reduce feelings such as fear. [Read: How to be more
Even if a Christian literally cannot cover the tip, then they cannot afford to eat. Tipping in the US is customary and expected. To hold back on this is to accept labour without proper compensation – borderline theft and something that should be far from the Christian mind. “Sunday is th...
Sometimes we get drawn to partners not because they could give us something wonderful but because they could give us something terrible – in the hope that they may also give us the chance to overcome that terror. So we may choose someone who reminds us how withdrawn our father was or how...
Seven years of marriage still feels like and has glimpses as to those early lustful days. There are still times i feel fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of my husband –maybe when he’s talking to someone else or a look he doesn’t give too often– and I’m taken right back to th...
We all have a dark side. And, in general, it’s no big deal. Earlier, I wrote a piece called“Just How Dark Is Your Dark Side?”(2014) in which I argued that all of us have certain aggressive, illicitly lustful, and antisocial instincts. And when powerfully provoked, we can discove...
there are certainly other things that can be done to keep Satan away. For starters, don’t look at things that are lustful. Most men have a problem with this, but this problem of staring at female flesh can be overcome by going to Adoration often and staring at the flesh of Jesus in...
By being honest with ourselves and compassionately accepting our shadow elements, it frees us up to truly witness the uncharted areas of our minds, allowing us to see thatwe are not these elements, but simplypossessthoughts, feelings, and drives that come and go like clouds in the sky. ...
And how long does lust last? It can also sometimes take time to develop between two people. The lustful feeling may intensify over time as you spend more time around a person. Also, you may feel intense lust that may cloud your judgment temporarily. So you can give yourself a chance to...
As Christian girls grew up, they were constantly told of their worthlessness and sinful lustfulness. Women, said Tertullian, were “irrational, more prone to lust than men, and at every turn waiting to seduce men,” so husbands had to beat them all the time t...
addict, I am a liar, I am a lustful, I am hateful, or “I am a carnal person sold under sin,” as Paul says. Truth: We may commit sins, and we must not be in denial, but my sins are not who I am. They might be what I am doing but ...