What Kind of Emotional Contagion Are You Spreading?
Our emotional experiences and expressions affect the people around us. This is as true for adults as it is for children. So what are you passing along?
Amy Simpson Posts
Your Pain Comes with Possibilities
We can let our pain fool us into believing we are the only ones who have suffered. We can use our pain as an excuse to stop doing hard things. We can refuse to deal with it, covering it over with smiles or things that make us feel good or lies we tell ourselves. Or we can let it soften us and make us more open to others. We can let it make us more aware of what others need from us–and decide to respond in offering what we can.
Your Current Living Arrangement Is Not Meant to Be Permanent
God doesn’t promise that we will be satisfied in this life, nor does he expect us to be fully fulfilled by the experience of living in these tents. Instead, he enables us to choose contentment and to live in anticipation, knowing we have a better home ahead.
Your Disaster Zone Is God’s Construction Zone
y Bringing Life and a Bit of Peace Last year my family visited the National September 11 Memorial in New York City. It’s a solemn work of art, bringing life and a bit of peace to a place of death and destruction. As my family and I paused...
Hope for When Mental Illness Comes Home
yYou Seem Like You Have It All Together During a high school youth group meeting, we did an activity that involved saying nice things about the other people in our small group. I was shocked when one of the other girls said, “Amy, you...
