All relationships have their struggles. Arguments are bound to happen and dealing with them effectively is easier said than done. The quote, “It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations,” means that we need to learn to have grace in order to make it through the hard times in our relationships and come out stronger in the end. What Is Grace? Grace has many different meanings, but ultimately, it comes down to showing kindness

In the 2006 movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith plays a man named Chris Gardner. He is outside playing basketball with his son, who is played by Smith’s real son, Jaden. He tells his son that he will be able to excel in a lot of things, but not basketball. He tells him that he doesn’t want him he doesn’t want him shooting hoops all day and night. His son is obviously discouraged by

Do you struggle with overthinking about things? Perhaps you get caught up in wondering about why your friend didn’t text you back. Or you feel stressed about the email your boss sent you. Or even the list of chores you have to do this week. We let our minds be full of random little things that stress us out, cause us to worry, or make us feel bad, taking away our attention from the gift

When you are working toward an important goal, you usually want to achieve it sooner rather than later. The idea that it could take months, or even years to realize a desired outcome feels intolerable. Like most other people do, you may have tried to hurry the process along by working harder on it or searching for shortcuts that would get you there faster. The problem is, the harder you try to rush the fulfillment

As much as you might wish sometimes that you could avoid challenges and obstacles and have your path through life be consistently smooth and easy, it’s helpful to recognize that challenges actually serve a useful purpose, in a few different ways. The first big benefit of challenges is that they cause you to focus more clearly on what you want, that wonderful end result that you are trying to attain. When you look at a

We are all works in progress and constantly evolving. As adults, this can be hard for us to see. But for the butterfly, the change is more obvious. Butterflies are not born as baby butterflies. They hatch from their eggs as caterpillars. As larva, the caterpillar will consume plenty of leaves and grow to be quite large. One day, he stops consuming leaves and begins spinning his cocoon. This cocoon keeps his body safe as

At times it’s easy to feel like you don’t matter much, and there is no real purpose for your life. You may think of yourself as just one of the billions of people occupying the planet, and you might even believe that there’s nothing really special about you. Especially if you haven’t yet achieved anything that would be considered newsworthy or impressive by most people’s standards, you probably see yourself as just an “average” person

Life is full of leaps of faith as everything in life comes with risk. Certainly, some leaps of faith are riskier than others, but every step you take has some risk attached. We often find ourselves too scared to leap, too scared to take a chance that is presented to us. Why do we hold ourselves back from reaching our full potential? Taking a risk isn’t always as risky as we may initially believe. Leaps