Have you ever applied for and/or been selected for a particular job only to find out once you actually report to work that the “duties” are not at all what you had understood them to be?  Employers sometimes tend to use exaggerations and embellishments in job descriptions, perhaps to entice the applicants and/or to give the person who gets the position the sense that what they are doing in the job carries great importance and prestige. …

 Some of us, who can plan for the future, invest in stocks.  I have less than a layman’s understanding of investments and financial portfolios, but it seems that choosing a “promising” investment or stock option can be both risky and beneficial. …

As I have mentioned before, I wander off and have done so from a very early age on.  As entertaining as the stories of my wandering escapades are to hear, they also serve for good reflection as an adult.  One of my favorite stories is when I was at my grandparents’ house with my family at a party.  …

“Family” can mean many things to different people.  For many of us, family is a source of security and acceptance, love, belonging, support, and challenge.  For others of us, family can mean unacceptance, rejection, abandonment, abuse, exclusion and pain.  Despite the associations that we have with “family,” it seems clear that there is a sense of the “familiar” here. …

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”…