One of the primary effects of our culture’s obsession with time has been to make us quantity-oriented instead of quality-oriented. Therefore, it has become necessary for us to measure everything. We have become obsessed with amounts, sizes, numbers, and distances. And we only think of amount, sizes and distances in comparative terms. Now, we have…
At any age both men and women encounter Dating Challenges. Ladies, you worry about your make-up, whether you look fat, and your hair. Men worry about having enough money, whether they will like the woman, and if their tie (if they are wearing one) is straight. Being liked and accepted is something both men and…
Living In The Past Recently, I was sitting around having a major pity party concerning “wudda, shoulda, cuddas and I had to pull to the side of the road of life and spend so time meditating. I had lost my focus completely. My reason for being! And even though many of my writings are about…
It’s Ok To Ask Why Suffering and pain are probably the most confusing aspects of life. C.S. Lewis calls this God’s megaphones, which I think is an appropriate metaphor because nothing gets and keeps our attention quite like pain and suffering. Nothing makes us think about God more than pain, leading to the one inevitable…
A Warning “I wouldn’t trade common sense for anything in the world.” How many times have we heard the above statement proclaimed, yet, have we already done so? Reckless spending, terrible business decisions, political ineffectiveness and inefficiency, failing educational systems and religious pandering for profit, has taken America by storm and it should be a…
Why Negative Thinking? I’ m feeling a strong compulsion today to write about something we all have to deal with. I’ve been sitting around on the mend from surgery and lately, I seem to be bombarded with negative thoughts. Eckhart Tolle tackles the subject of negative thinking in his book, “A New Earth”. Basically he…
Who Am I? Theodore Lovelace Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. –Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965) Hello, my name is Theodore Lovelace and I am the creator of this website. I am a single father raising three…
How Do I Know If I’m Sane? “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he” ……” Then you will know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH will free your mind” Secular mental health experts generally define mental health as being in touch with reality and being relatively free of anxiety. Secular standards are “reasonable”,…
