Tag Archives: anxiety

God Gives Me Rest

Posted on August 25, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Sleep deprivation has emerged as one of the major threats to our sense of wellbeing. Most adult Australians now get less than seven hours of sleep per night, whereas our great grandparents got nine. Cultural and economic forces have combined … Continue reading →

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Controlling Our Moods

Posted on July 31, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

One of the hardest things in life is to understand and control our moods. When we’re feeling good everything around us looks good and is good. But when we get into a dark mood that same world becomes miserable and … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Moods, Personal Growth, Prayer, Spirituality, Trials and testings, tribulation and trouble, Trust in God | Tagged anxiety, disatisfaction, happiness, Hope, inspirational sayings, peace with one's self, rich inner life, spirituality, worry | Leave a comment

Spiritual Furniture

Posted on July 21, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

The eminent psychologist Martin Seligman said that we need to ask ourselves why our grandparents, when they were thwarted, when the people they loved rejected them, when they didn’t get the job they wanted, and when their children died, didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in emptiness, Encouragement, Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Life's journey, Living Life, Loneliness, Neurosis, Personal Growth, pilgrimage, Prayer, quietness, Religion, Spiritual Furniture, Spirituality, supportive community, Trials and testings, tribulation and trouble, Trust in God | Tagged anxiety, God With Us, Hope, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, rich inner life, spirituality, worry | Leave a comment

Taking a Jump

Posted on July 17, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

African impalas, which can jump four metres high and ten metres long, are often kept in enclosures behind a wall that’s only one metre high. The reason is that impalas will not jump if they can’t see where their feet … Continue reading →

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Stepping Up

Posted on July 14, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

There’s an old fable about a donkey that fell into a dry well. The owner couldn’t figure out how to get the donkey out, but since he’d been intending to cover the well he started shovelling dirt into it. The … Continue reading →

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Finding ourselves by not being absorbed with ourselves

Posted on June 30, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Thomas Wolfe once wrote: ‘The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, emptiness, Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Life's journey, Living Life, Loneliness, love, Neurosis, Personal Growth, Religion, satisfaction, Spirituality, Trials and testings, tribulation and trouble | Tagged anxiety, Dr Karl Meninger, fulfillment, God With Us, Hope, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, religion, spirituality, worry | 1 Comment

Stranglers v Wranglers

Posted on May 16, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Years ago, a group of young men at the University of Wisconsin, who seemed destined for literary greatness, used to meet to critique each other’s work. They were so merciless in their criticism that they decided to call themselves ‘the … Continue reading →

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Getting Into Hot Water

Posted on April 12, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

A woman complained to her father about how difficult life had become. Her dad, who worked as a chef, took her into his kitchen and told her to watch as he boiled three saucepans of water and then put carrots … Continue reading →

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Don’t Worry; Be Happy!

Posted on February 4, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

They say that a dense fog covering seven city blocks to a depth of a hundred feet, if it could be condensed into water, would contain less than one glass of liquid. Now compare this to the things we spend … Continue reading →

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