Category: your-voice

We are now one week into the new year. How well have you done with your New Year's resolutions? So far, so good?

With the new year comes a sense of new beginnings. Resolutions, new plans and expectations are laid out to help better one's sense of well-being.

It comes around every year, although when it actually starts may vary. Does it really make a difference? Some say, "Absolutely!" Others say, "It’s just really annoying!"

Christmas is visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads; lots of parties; an annual season of goodwill; numerous trips to the mall; and pulling out hair because of myriad things to do.

On Oct. 3, 1789, President George Washington made the following proclamation and created the United States' first official Thanksgiving Day.

Several atheist assemblies are springing up around the world, which troubles me.

You've probably heard the phrase, “Many a truth is told in jest,” or some version of it. Geoffrey Chaucer included this sentiment in "The Cook's Tale," written in 1390.

Hunger and thirst are our two basic survival needs. However, we must hunger and thirst for righteousness to be truly happy.

In Matthew 5:3, Jesus says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

Practicing what we preach truly marks a changed life.