Find Fulfillment through Knowing Your Purpose
Our purpose is anchored in the significance we experience in Christ. If we are convinced that we are born with a special purpose, then this affects every area of our lives. The result is a sense of destiny that enhances the overall picture we have of ourselves. A sense of purpose, as a part of our thinking, is a strong motivator. This drives us to achieve God’s plan for our lives.
Similarly, an important aspect of our self‐esteem and finding our purpose, is our contentedness to others. Thus Mathew 22:39 instructs us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Consequently, Christian women can find true happiness, self‐esteem, and personal fulfillment though our knowledge of who we are in Christ and our relationship with others.
Prayer
Our Father we thank you that we are special to you. Help as women to truly understand who we really are in Christ. In so doing, we will know that we are accepted and significant, and find our true identity. Help us to …More

Costa Rican woman Diaz poses near a statue of John Paul II
Floribeth Mora Diaz, 50, and from Costa Rica, suffered a brain aneurysm in April, 2011. After a series of tests in a hospital, including a brain scan, and after a three-hour operation, doctors gave her the bad news.
"They sent me home and told me I had a month to live and that there was little hope," she said, speaking with tears in her eyes.
She began praying to the late John Paul, to whom she was very devoted and who died six years earlier in 2005.
"I prayed to John Paul and I asked him to tell God that I did not want to die because I love my children and did not want to abandon them," she said.
On May 1, 2011, still sick, she woke up 2 a.m. and turned on the television to watch the ceremony in St. Peter's Square where John Paul was being beatified, the last step before sainthood.
"I fell asleep and when I woke up I heard the voice of John Paul telling me "Get Up! Don't be afraid!"
She says she got out of bed, shocking her …More

Introduction
Most people feel bad about themselves from time to time. Feelings of low self-esteem may be triggered by being treated poorly by someone else recently or in the past, or by a person’s own
judgments of him or herself. This is normal. However, low self-esteem is a constant companion
for too many people, especially those who experience depression, anxiety, phobias, psychosis,
delusional thinking, or who have an illness or a disability. If you are one of these people, you
may go through life feeling bad about yourself needlessly. Low self-esteem keeps you from
enjoying life, doing the things you want to do, and working toward personal goals.
You have a right to feel good about yourself. However, it can be very difficult to feel good about yourself when you are under the stress of having symptoms that are hard to manage, when you are dealing with a disability, when you are having a difficult time, or when others are treating you badly. At these times, it is easy to be drawn into …More

We have to stay focused on our dream. Dream: our God-given vision of the future that God wants us to live. God gave you a dream. He tells us what He wants us to do vocationally by putting a vision deep in our hearts. For instance; some people as young as 10 know they are musicians. How? They recognize a deep yearning, a pull a deep irrefutable draw to do something.
God has a vocational will for our lives too. He said in Ephesians 4:1 I beseech you as a prisoner of God, to walk worthy of the vocation where ye where called. How do you know what vocation you were called to? Look at your gifts? Exhortation, teaching, administrations, servicing, ministering.. God may place a gift of exhortation and put in in the field of music. But the gift according to scripture is exhortation. God may take a gift of exhortation and place in the field of public speaking, but the gift is still exhortation.
What are we to do with this? Paul teaches Timothy to give himself completely to his exhortation. I Tim …More

Love addiction is a condition in which individuals do not fall in love with someone who will return their affection. Rather, they are attracted to somebody who will neglect the relationship. For more insight into the subject, we turned to an expert:Pia Mellody, Senior Clinical Advisor for The Meadows and Clinical Consultant for Mellody House and Dakota, who traces the origins of love addiction to early childhood trauma caused by neglect or abandonment.
In the following interview, Mellody discusses the ideology of the addiction, how to recognize it, the stages of addiction from attraction and fantasy to denial and obsession, and the recovery process for love addicts based on 12-step work and counseling. Truth be told, Mellody reveals that she herself was the inspiration that led her to research the subject, which led to her writing the bookFacing Love Addiction.
"I originally really watched myself doing this crazy stuff and my partner reacting to me and me reacting to him," she says. "I …More

1. Being unclear about your financial situation. Not knowing account balances, monthly expenses, loan interest rates, fees, fines, or contractual obligations.
2. Frequently "borrowing" items such as books, pens, or small amounts of money from friends and others, and failing to return them.
3. Poor saving habits. Not planning for taxes, retirement or other not-recurring but predictable items, and then feeling surprised when they come due; a "live for today, don't worry about tomorrow" attitude."
4. Compulsive shopping: Being unable to pass up a "good deal"; making impulsive purchases; leaving price tags on clothes so they can be returned; not using items you've purchased.
5. Difficulty in meeting basic financial or personal obligations, and/or an inordinate sense of accomplishment when such obligations are met.
6. A different feeling when buying things on credit than when paying cash, a feeling of being in the club, of being accepted, of being grown up.
7. Living in chaos and drama around …More