Your day was going just fine until the phone rang and you learned that a friend has stage four cancer that is inoperable. You got an email from work and everyone has been released with no warning. It can happen in an instant. Life hands you something you were totally unprepared for and you are [...]

Youngsters smile typically 45 times an hour, and they’ll “belly laugh” 1 time every 7.5 minutes. By the time we become a grownup that drops to about 15 times a day on average. In hospitals it is almost Zero. When was the last time you had a good laugh? The popular expression, “Laughter is the [...]

If you are thinking of changing careers, then know that you are not alone.  During times of economic uncertainty, changing careers can mean the difference between being gainfully employed or trying to make ends meet on what you qualify for from the department of labor.  Recent reports site statistics that show that Baby Boomers will [...]

In marriage, adultery is the number one fear that spouses have.  When one spouse commits adultery and becomes convinced that the new person is the right person to be with, divorce may seem to be the only option.  Adultery and the deception that it entails can consume everyone involved and eventually, the adulterer and the [...]

If you have ever known a workaholic, you may have heard them use the word like a badge of honor; something that they take immense pride in.  ‘Aholic’ is added to workaholic to bring light to the addictive nature of the behavior of working all of the time and sometimes it is more difficult to [...]

Difficult, isn’t it, that children brought up in a loving, Christian home opt to rebel against their dad and mom, or worse, against God? In the end, they’ve had Jesus’ love served up in huge servings. Quite a few have enjoyed the gratification of a deep Christian traditions – some since the day they were [...]

Welcome to the Bless Me Network Prayer Wall! You can submit a prayer request or pray for those below who are in need. Let them know you have prayed for them by responding to their request. We will also spread the word inside our large network of ordained ministers, priest and pastors to pray for [...]

We have so many ways of communicating with each other today! We have cell phones we can use to talk from virtually anywhere to places all over the world. We can Skype friends and family and see them as we talk to them. We can email, send Facebook messages and Twitter. And if all else [...]

Stanford psychologist Phillip Zimbardo wrote a book a number of years ago called Shyness: What it is, What to do about it, in which he wrote about both the strengths and needs of shy people. He wrote about all of the famous people who were shy, people like Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson and Steve Martin. He said [...]

Every year an estimated 4.1 million children are subjected to violence against a parent or other caretakers by close relatives (Report of the APA Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, 1996). Domestic violence affects every family member, including youngsters. Domestic violence creates a home atmosphere where children don’t feel safe and live in [...]

 As we grow up with our parents, we rely on them for so much.  We then move from under the roof of our parents and live our lives.  As time goes on, our parents may become weaker, their senses may begin to fail them or they could become ill and not be able to take [...]

My colleagues from www.blessmenetwork.com and I pledge together to honor God by enacting ourselves afresh to God’s first institution — marriage. We feel that marriage is a holy union of one man and one woman in which they devote, with God’s help, to create a loving, life-giving, faithful relationship which will last for a lifetime. [...]

When we are born, we immediately form bonds that are related to our needs and environment.  We become immediately attached to our parents, to food and drink and our surroundings.  As we grow up, those attachments expand to friends, groups of friends, activities, and preferences. Beyond adolescence and into maturity our attachments grow further into [...]

Each family is in itself a small society that contains its own traditions and its own unique culture.  By culture, it is meant that each member of the family understands that there is a certain acceptable way to do things outside of the home based on the beliefs inside the home.  Parents are the shapers [...]

Barbara Streisand sang a song a number of years ago which declared, “People who need people…are the luckiest people…” But today there are a lot of people who might debate that. Is it really good to need people? If you need people, they can fail you. What if you need them to stand by you [...]

When my boys were very small, I took them and left an abusive husband who had beaten them horribly while I was away from home. Life was difficult as a single parent, but I had a job with a terrific boss, transportation, childcare and a support system and I knew I was one of the [...]

As gadget junkie I enjoy keeping up with the latest innovations in mobile communication.  It used to be that if I wanted to access something on my phone that I needed a large memory chip for storage.  However, it still didn’t take long to fill it up with stuff and then have to decide what [...]

Sometimes people who need a little help with a spiritual or relational problem are embarrassed because they think they should be able to handle all of their problems on their own. So let’s take a look at some of the great characters of the Bible who needed help with various issues in their life. Maybe [...]

Do you every feel so overwhelmed by things that you literally don’t know how or what to pray for? Paul obviously did. In Romans 8:26-27, he wrote: And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us [...]

One of my favorite touchpoint Scriptures is I Samuel 22:1-5. David is sitting in the cave of Adullam, which means the “Place of the Squeeze.” I don’t know about you, but sometimes I really feel like I’m being squeezed by the circumstances of my life! Verse 2 says that all that were with David, about [...]