A Good Woman Will Transform a Prince into a King — or USA President

 A good woman will increase and enhance your happiness.

A good and godly woman will be a catalyst, whereby the Holy Spirit brings both of you greater joy!

A good woman will make you feel better about yourself.

A good and godly woman will make you look so good that you barely recognize yourself!

A good woman will be a key determinant and vital contributor to your (plural) career development and socio-economical impact and growth.

A good and godly woman will take the raw materials of an astute, quick thinking, good looking, slow talking summer associate at the law firm where she practiced law, and transform him into the president of the most powerful nation on earth.

Michelle Obama, thank you so very much for introducing planet earth to Barack. Oopsie [We’re not on a first name basis].

Thank you for transforming him into my president, Barack Hussein Obama II.

Now that’s what I call some serious mentoring!!!

Written on June 16, 2019

Tweaked slightly on July 23, 2023

Embracing Life Fully After Death Robs You of a Loved One

Grief resulting from the death of a loved one, never leaves you entirely — even after emotional, psychological and spiritual healing occurs. The journey of recovery will never end on this side of Heaven.

When you suffer a deep cut, that partially severs a muscle, the healing and recovery process requires significantly more than a band-aid — a surface level solution.

It requires proper wound care, optimum nutrition and rehabilitation — doing specific stretches and strengthening exercises that are designed to correct range of motion joint limitations and weakness of the injured and damaged muscle tissues, in order to make a complete functional recovery.

Similarly, after grief knocks at your heart’s door, you must bravely

• Face your loss.
• Find coping strategies during the short term.
• Do the hard work

in order to become a healthy individual once again. This frequently requires counselling or joining a self help group, as you move through the stages of grief.

When children face early trauma, they have an even more difficult road back to wholeness, because they have not lived long enough or had the life experiences needed to develop the coping strategies and resilience necessary to recover from this type of trauma.

When you lose someone that you love dearly, in a very real sense, part of you is forever buried with them, in their grave. The greatest challenge that you may face, during this season of life, is to resurrect the will to live again.

Embracing Constructive Criticism

 Even when an insecure, hateful or adversarial person spits their criticism at you, with the intention of causing you embarrassment or emotional harm, a wise, mature self-controlled individual, will do their best (on a good day), to filter out that which is destructive, while searching for kernels of truth.

We all have blind spots. Each of us has character flaws and bad habits. There will always be aspects of our lives, where there is room for improvement. Self knowledge and self awareness are essential for our personal growth, in every dimension of our lives.

 I believe that a willingness to seek out and to accept constructive criticism (ideally, dispensed gently and respectfully) from others, is one of the key factors that will enable an individual to progress the farthest, in the shortest period of time, with the fewest missteps and the least amount of stress.

 Having a teachable spirit is an important determinant of future success.

 If you do not easily become hostile or defensive, your spouse or partner, as well as loving and supportive family members and close friends, will feel at liberty to enlighten you about your weaknesses, character flaws and idiosyncrasies which will become obstacles to your personal development and future career advancement.

 Those who are thin skinned do themselves a great disservice by cutting themselves off from the insights of those who know them best.