By Tamara Glasner I’d like to encourage you to take a little more time right now to focus on those under your roof. You can not believe the power of looking at your loved ones in the eye as they are talking, putting your phone in a “time out zone,”…

Tamara and Lawrence Glasner I think we all might feel “isolated” at one time or another in marriage. Misunderstandings lead to feeling unheard and alone. Sometimes, we consciously or unconsciously leave our partner out, out of our activities, out of our other friendships, and out of our daily lives. We…

Diane Arnold The irony of what is happening in the world around us should not be lost. We are over run with trepidation, anxiety, and fear — at the time everyone is striving for the opposite. …

Tamara Glasner A few years ago, I found myself trying, once again, not to wake my husband by my tossing and turning. I had been gripped by fear for the millionth time over different things. This was another one of those nights, and on this night, I was panicked over…

Tamara Glasner Resilience: An ability to recover from or adjust easily to change or misfortune. Our family went to Forest Home Family Camp summer after summer as our girls were growing up. The camp was one of our favorite family memories, as we all had incredible times with each other and also with God during communal times of worship, hiking, swimming in the…

Lawrence Glasner My brothers and I grew up in an emotionally and physically volatile home. Rules changed on a whim and often. You never knew when you might get smacked, screamed at, or ordered away from the dinner table to solitary confinement without good cause. …

Diane Arnold The increasing chaos we see in the world today and more even in our own neighborhoods can make us feel like we are constantly living on edge. The news, our government officials and even advertisements can use fear and the state of angst in the world for their…

Jessica Glasner As of today, we have been without electricity for 6 days. It began last Tuesday around midnight. There was a loud banging noise, and then the lights flickered ominously once or twice, and then the silence desceneded. No gentle hum of the heater. No buzz of the refrigerator…

Part 1 of Not Many Fathers By Lawrence Glasner When I was a kid in the 1960s, one in ten children grew up in a home without a dad. Today, it’s four in ten. Family law judges routinely grant the mother primary custody in divorce litigation. And greater than fifty…