Stay off the Happiness Treadmill The hedonic treadmill, or hedonic adaptation, is the human tendency to quickly return to a stable baseline level of happiness after major positive or negative life events or changes. People have a set point of well-being. Good or bad events cause temporary spikes or drops, but feelings fade back to normal....
Joy Unspeakable! (Inspiration and excerpts from Joy That Holds You devotional) “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalms 16:11 NKJV Intellectually we know that joy and happiness are not synonymous, happiness is based on happenings. Joy comes deep from...
Stay off the Happiness Treadmill The hedonic treadmill, or hedonic adaptation, is the human tendency to quickly return to a stable baseline level of happiness after major positive or negative life events or changes. People have a set point of well-being. Good or bad events cause temporary spikes or drops, but feelings fade back to normal....
I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ. Phil 3:7-9,...
These are difficult days, so you must guard against allowing others to get you down through tearing you down. Do the best you can with what you have and what you have been called to do and leave the rest to Me, says the Lord. It is a difficult task to try to be all...
Based on the Mayo Clinic, Managing stress involves a mix of physical care, mental shifts, and lifestyle changes. Effective strategies include regular physical exercise, deep breathing exercises, setting clear personal boundaries, getting enough sleep, and talking through your feelings with trusted friends or professionals. Physical Strategies Move your body: Walk, run, or dance for thirty minutes to...
“Look at it this way. If someone has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders off, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine and go after the one? 13 And if he finds it, doesn’t he make far more over it than over the ninety-nine who stay put? 14 Your Father in heaven feels the same...
Founded in 1870 as the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth, Washington, D.C. ‘s Dunbar High School is the first public high school for Black students in the United States. Originally meeting in the basement of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, it was later renamed in 1916 after the renowned African American poet Paul Laurence...
Pray, Prepare and Watch (Inspired by Less Noise, More God devotional by Joon Tavarez) “Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for...
