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Should You Have Known?

One of the great privileges the Lord has provided me is to serve people as a Christian mediator (sometimes arbitrator and sometimes coach).  I just finished a full day mediation with Godly people who were able to work through difficult “stuff” and come to a reconciling resolution of both substantive and relational conflict issues. I

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How’s Your Perfection Coming?

This post was originally published on Jan.30, 2022  and updated on Feb. 2, 2025 OK, remember “The Fonz”?  That’s Fonzie from the TV series “Happy Days”.  Never was there a character that was more perfect (in his own mind).  He was a 1950’s lovable and almost superhuman greaser who provided us so many laughs. I

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Are You in the Battle

In one of my small groups, we have a member who was diagnosed with a cancer that is terribly ominous and which has taken her for short stints out-of-country and for 5 months away from home in treatment in another state.  Hard stuff affecting every function of her body and with a terrible prognosis. Thankfully,

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Resolutions

I am all in for looking back at the end of a year to identify big events that impacted me, to identify things for which I am grateful, and yes, to consider things that I would like to have change in my life. HOWEVER (yes, all caps!) – I no longer even consider doing new

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Habitual Peacemaker

A few months ago I was asked by Christian Legal Society to review a book for them.  They publish a quarterly journal which also has a few book reviews. I agreed.  (I know, I know, this was supposed to be the season I was saying “no” to overwhelm.  But I love to read.) The title

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Words Have Power

Throughout the years of doing Christian mediations and coaching people in conflict, I have been amazed at the power of the words often at the core of the struggle and hurt.   So when I heard Tim Keller’s podcast on the power of words, I loved how he handled the whole topic. I did this blog on the

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Trust and Obey

As I am in my last week pre-surgery, I found this in an article written for doctors from a psychological point of view – it was aimed to be a help for pre-and-post-operative considerations.  Since I have been “considering” this A LOT in my pre-surgical state, I was curious if it matched up for me.

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Spiritual Optimism

Is your glass half full or half empty? Do you wear rose-colored glasses or do you expect Murphy’s law everywhere you look?  Are you looking on the bright side or expecting the worst?   The words optimistic and pessimistic are opposites and when used in the context of a person’s general outlook, it expresses their sense of whether a situation will

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Answered Before Asked

OK, I will just “fess up” right now.  I am one of those annoying people who, when in a hurry, will blurt out the rest of the sentence, or thought, or whatever someone else is trying to say — and they are perhaps taking just a little too long to say it, evidently, in my

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Step By Step

You’re in a hurry. You need to know what this story is about. Stat. OK, OK. It’s about impatience. And, so you don’t have to wade through the whole thing, here is the last sentence of the story: In other words, imprudence, not impatience, is the problem. C U L8R The above is the opening

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I'm Candy.

A lawyer by trade, and a Sherpa by choice; I draw upon my professional experience and combine valuable insight from others to help you REVITALIZE YOUR LIFE story.