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Dear God, Today feels like pizza day in the canned-green-peas-smelling cafeteria of my soul. Because I get to read the Beatitudes! Hands down, my favorite passage in your book (the Bible). For this at-times pessimistic, skeptical person, your eight promises give me a better shot (than had I spent the fifteen minutes reading the DaVinci…

Blest are you with IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome), for you shall be able to eat nachos again. Blest are you who breastfed, for you shall inherit free implants to repair all the damage. Blest are you who shop at plus-sizes boutiques, you’ll never have to eat a Jenny Craig dinner again. Blest are you with…

This is one of my guardian angel’s favorite passages, from Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet.” I think it reads much like the Beatitudes. Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into…

Thanks to Beyond Blue reader Dawn Andrea who wrote this e-mail to me over the weekend regarding the Beatitudes: We think happiness is getting what we want, when we generally don’t know what we want, or what is good for us. God knows what is good for us. I think when we do get what…

Couples who frequently pray together are twice as likely as those who pray less often to describe their marriages as being highly romantic. And get this–married couples who pray together are 90 percent more likely to report higher satisfaction with their sex lives than couples who don’t pray together [my remarks: sure, they say “oh…

Sex is the most fun I ever had without laughing. -Woody Allen

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love. …. You never know anyone until you marry them. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Hi all. Just a reminder for all those who want to participate in the Self-Esteem Forum No. 2, log on to Group Beyond Blue at the Beliefnet Community. Click “Discussions” to the left, and find the thread named Self-Esteem Forum #2. Either be there at 10 am EST or let us know that you can’t…

In the spirit of Winter Health Week, I am interviewing Beliefnet’s Health Editor for this week’s “How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” segment. Who is that? Why, she is MY editor, Holly Lebowitz Rossi. Until I checked out her homepage on Beliefnet’s Community (click here), I thought I was the center of her universe. But…

This is a reprint of Holly’s original piece “Goodbye Noodle,” which you can get to by clicking here. It wasn’t her fault, of course, but Noodle, my family’s glorious white standard poodle, died at a very inconvenient time, just when I needed her most. Almost nine years before, just as I was moving out to…
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