Where can you turn when life turns upside down 54 Articles

by Susie Turk

Imagine if you will, standing on the top of a box. You know you can't stand there forever, however the thought of stepping off, and into a sea of land mines, is thoroughly overwhelming. Of course, you're clearly aware at s...read more

by Kathryn Kirby

Why are we as parents so reluctant to do the right thing by our children these days? Now, do not get mad yet, give me a chance to make my point first. Then you can get mad, or you can do something, whether it is for your c...read more

by Charmaine Ragpala

No one ever tells you that it's going to take a damn long time to heal. They just say time heals all things. No one ever tells you that your worst fear just might come true. In fact its a very likely thing to happen. No on...read more

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by Tony Nesberts

personally i believe that life is all about storms,its either you are heading for a storm, you are inthe midst of a storm or you are just coming out from a storm.the truth is one way or the other we are bound to be tried a...read more

by Thomas J Venning

Seeded in devastation often results in restoration... In sports to be seeded refers to how highly you may be favored in some sort of tournament. A more literal definition however, is to furnish with something that gr...read more

by urbanrenewal

"Finding Your Secret Place" My family and I were in a crisis. All we could do was pray and hope for the best. My daughter was missing. She was only thirteen at the time. Too young to be wandering inner-city streets alon...read more

by Deanne Phillips

Paralyzed by fear. Alone. Frozen on the precipice and unable to step ahead into the unknown and yet sensing the symbolic sword at your back, edging you ever so concretely forward. She was the pride of her mom and dad ...read more

by Debbie Robus

Life turns everybody upside down from time to time. It's nothing new, really. This has been going on since the creation of Adam! But solutions for handling it have been with us equally as long. In Job 4:1-11, we read...read more

by Natica Drexler

Life has it really changed. As a Child older people really got on my nerves talking about how bad our world has become. As an Adult I had come to the conclusion that it just seemed that way because of the growing med...read more

by Screwloose

In 1991, my husbands youngest son called and stated that he came home from work and found his girlfriend stabbed 22 times lying on the floor with their baby daughter close by. In 1998, my stepson was arrested for that mur...read more

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by Vito Sassano

"Aye-Yi-Yi"..........In 1943, When I was three years old,my father joined the navy. Well there were five kids in the family at the time,and it was decided that we all needed to go into homes till my father returned from t...read more

by Plumeria

I'm a mother, a wife & a daughter/caretaker - preferably in that order. And nearly everyday I am overwhelmed by the demands that my caretaker position places on me. When my 2 year old daughter was ill and admitted to t...read more

by Helen Tay

Where can you turn when life turns upside down. Take a moment to reflect where one is. When life turns upside down for one, grief and sorrow abounds and all rational thoughts are depressive thoughts. One can continu...read more

by SVL

Have you heard of the DVD called "the Secret"? Well it isn't such a secret anymore. The DVD was released in March 2006 and according to Time Magazine, the DVD has sold 500,000 units within the first 6 months. Today it sell...read more

by Dale Sadler

"Ask What, Not Why" One very difficult part of life is that we sometimes face tragedy. The unexpected death of a loved one, the loss of a job when your finances are strained, or a terrible health diagnosis can shake even ...read more

by Cindy Sprigg

The light at the end of the tunnel is that of the oncoming express or if it is Murphy's law, I am Murphy. Just a brief (or maybe not so brief) background of what is the average day in the life of Cindy Sprigg: Tod...read more

by Dawn Reed

No matter how hard you try to avoid it, adversity is always right around the corner. In the blink of an eye, times of laughter can be replaced by tears. The world as you knew it, as you lived it, no longer exists. You find...read more

by Gan Yung Chyan Frontrich

My relatives and family have always asked me how I felt and whether I feel down each time after I resigned from my previous job. It is not so much what actually happens to me during resignation, but how I view the resi...read more

by Peter Akermann

The life has ups and downs.Some of down turns can be avoided.Other takes us in unexpected time and situations.To offer an unique key solution for all our critical situations,is not possible .Nobody has a clue for a success...read more

by Tina Butler

There is often a point where life becomes something of a nightmare. And in todays society each day can seem harder than the previous. A some point we as a nation decided to give control of our lives to to people who know n...read more