Perfectionist Childhood | What It Does To You | What You Can Do To Deal With It Perfectionist Childhood | What Does That Mean? The title of this section is a play on words over the normally known perfectionist parents. The idea is that parents who seek an unprecedented level of perfection from their children put the child under excessive stress and therefore scar them for life. While this is true, what psychologists fail to realize is that those parents themselves would have…
Bible | Jesus Christ | Book: Matthew | Chapter 1 | Verses 1 – 25 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah** 1 This is the genealogy {Or is an account of the origin} of Jesus the Messiah {Or Jesus Christ. Messiah (Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) both mean Anointed One; also in verse 18.} the son of David, the son of Abraham: 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,…
Bible | Jesus Christ | Book: Matthew | Chapter 2 | Verses 1 – 23 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Magi Visit the Messiah** 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi {Traditionally wise men} from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to…
The Word of God | Bible | Book: Genesis | Chapter 21 | Verses 1 – 34 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **The Birth of Isaac** 1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac {Isaac means he laughs.}…
Bible | Jesus Christ | Book: Matthew | Chapter 3 | Verses 1 – 17 | With Modern Day Takes ***Biblical Stories one at a time. The verses are from the New International Version of the Bible.*** **John the Baptist Prepares the Way** 1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness,…
Holy Spirit’s Voice | Choose It! Thoughts | Words | And Deeds The voices that tell us that we are not good, not worthy, useless, or can’t win are not from God. Imagine how much stronger God’s voice through the Holy Spirit would be! But.. We have a choice. The Holy Spirit does not overpower you or take over without your will. You can choose to listen to the Holy Spirit. So, call in the Holy Spirit and let Him tell you how wonderful a creation you are!! Video | Spiritual…
Want to Turn a Winner? | Then Play By the No Choice Rule Rule? | Ok, Let’s Not Call It A Rule Now, this may sound harsh when you are told that there are no choices in many matters, and we just have to go on and move forward. The element of choice appears to be a gift, but in many ways, it turns out to be a curse that is well-packaged and perfume-sprayed. And that’s the kindest definition for choice. I am not against choice, but where the choice is applied. Our parents’…
Self-Pity | Perfect Plot to Stay Stuck | Wanna Progress | Discard Self-Pity Feeling Bad For Oneself | Why? The idea of feeling pity for someone else for the struggles they are going through and taking action to help them is seen as a big-hearted approach. To see the discomfort of a fellow human and do something to alleviate that discomfort is surely commendable. And it is. But to take the same term “pity” and apply it to ourselves is actually an incredibly troublesome…
Money Problem | Somehow Managed to Drive Money Out of Work | And Hence Had Work But No Money Odd Conundrum As confusing as the main title reads, that’s how I had been going through life for a good amount of time. I couldn’t work the logic behind it, but it went something like this — I shouldn’t be focused on money; instead, I should be focused on work. There’s nothing wrong with the statement, as the underlying assumption is that if my work is good, then money should follow.…
Kept Watching Money | Lost Interest in Work | Grew Tired | And Then Blamed Money for It Interesting Experience | Unwanted Outcome I had spoken about my energy exercises around money, and how I had a breakthrough in my perception of money. I had spoken about it in my previous article, and those interested can have a read. Money Problem | Somehow Managed to Drive Money Out of Work | And Hence Had Work But No Money | by Awakenedgyani | Dec, 2025 | Medium…
Thorn in the Throat | Betrayed Promise | Depression | God’s Saving | Single Connected Experience Thorn in the Throat I think I was ten or eleven years old when, while having my food, a fish bone decided to lodge itself in my throat. Now, that wasn’t new. Like any fish-eating human, it was expected to happen, had happened to me before, but it eventually got washed down the throat. So, it was a momentary pain, and then it was all fine. Not this time, though. For some reason,…
Does Prayer Actually Deliver? | The Younger Phase | The Depression Phase | The Prayer Phase! Growing Up | Prayer Was Too Much Effort The growing-up days were all about playing and having fun. But Mom used to ask me to pray all the while. My elder sister was different. She used to play and also pray. I used to find that strange. How could she be taking time out from the fun times to pray? Prayer to me was an arduous task and one that was devoid of fun. There were too many…
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