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A Way to Test Your Positive or Negative Outlook
By
Linda Mintle
When I do resiliency training, we do a short exercise. I put two chairs in the front of the room. Each chair represents a different outlook. One is a positive outlook, the other is negative. Then I give a series of challenges and ask the person seated in a chair to respond to those challenges…
10 Ways to Help a Friend Through Depression
By
Linda Mintle
We all know someone who has struggled with depression. Or maybe that is you! No matter. Everyone needs help now and then. Because I often get asked, how do I help someone who is depressed, here are 10 ways to help a friend who is depressed. Don’t be afraid to talk about how the person…
Darkness Gives Way to Hope
By
Linda Mintle
I am so thankful for Good Friday this year. We can celebrate the Easter season in our churches once again. Going through the pandemic felt like the movie Ground Hog Day. We replayed the same bad day over and over with many fighting despair. Death, loss, arguing over vaccines and masks, lockdowns, shut downs, unrest……
Have Yourself a “Mary” Little Christmas Now
By
Linda Mintle
Can you imagine what a young girl might have felt and thought when an angel appeared to her and told her she had found favor with God, would conceive of the Holy Spirit and bear the Son of God? The questions that must have sped through her mind. How can this be? Why me?…
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