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Week 8- Stress Doesn't Have to Define Us

As college aged married and young single adults many of us believe that if we could just get money that the majority of our stress would deplete. Or if we just could get a good job, nice house and get a head start on our family goals life would become picture perfect. However, more often than not that just simply isn’t the case. All those things may help but the test of mortality is not to sail through life rather to go through trials and hardships that will draw us closer to our family and ultimately God.  Each of us have different stressors in our own life and we each deal with them in significantly different ways. To one person your load of stress may seem a little bit easier while to another person the load that you are caring would cripple them. This brings in the factor of comparison. Ryan Michael Hawks said, “Stop comparing yourself to others. The results of our comparisons are usually inaccurate because we usually match up our worst with their best. In reality, the person we wi
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Week 1- Things May Not Be as They Really Seem

There are very few things worse than waiting hours and hours in a line for the most loved, highly glamorized, and extremely coveted theme park attraction just to find that when you reach the front of the line that the ride will be closed for the next HOUR.  Not to mention this was going to be the last ride of the night and 1st and only time one might get to ride it this trip. Then the question arises do you leave the line to go to the next best ride hoping that the wait there isn’t too long? Or do you wait the additional hour and hope that it is everything thing that you ever imagined? Both options could lead to something grand, but no one truly knows for sure the outcome. The wondering is heightened due to a person having to pick one or the other and possibly never knowing the outcome since they may never get to experience the unpicked ride. Much like this ride many young single adults across the nation are faced with this dilemma. With the increasing marriage age and cohabitation and
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Week 11- Active Parenting

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  In a world where technology is increasingly taking over much of our attention as a society on a regular basis, it is no wonder why people feel a lack of attention in most aspects of their life. Now more than ever you often times can’t even get through a conversation without receiving at least one notification. Regardless of if you check it or not at each buzz your mind is tugged from the current conversation and sharing focus with the new notification. A notification doesn’t have to stop at one buzz. We all have been in a group chat that does not stop “blowing up” and even in the midst of deep conversation our minds can become very distracted.  This has been a new challenge in parenting over the years and is showing the in the behavior of the children of this generation. Michael Popkin has created an Active Parenting Program that takes out the feelings of lacking attention and puts in the feelings of comradery between parents and children. It is likely that undesirable or “bad behavi
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