
Managing Your Expectations
You can’t manage other people’s judgments but you can manage your own expectations, especially when it comes to parenting your own child.
In 1978, author Loren Eiseley published an essay called “The Star Thrower.” It recounts a beach walk by a narrator...
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You can’t manage other people’s judgments but you can manage your own expectations, especially when it comes to parenting your own child.

I want to live open-handed, releasing my concerns to the capable hands of God.

With fear mounting around the Ebola outbreak, the virus of exclusion can be as deadly as any.

Longtime CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta recalls the family medical emergency that inspired him to become a doctor.

After the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, I found comfort in an unlikely place: a photograph from an ancient burial site, and the moving story behind it.

Compassion is easy after a hurricane—but we should practice it every day. Here’s a prayer to help.
It occurred to me that rather than giving those who govern a piece of my mind, I could give them something else in my prayers: compassion.

Rick Hamlin shares a personal prayer for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Here are a few things that, improbably, perhaps, inspired me in the week since Gabrielle Giffords was shot.
The Guideposts editor-in-chief reflects on the importance of prayer in the Wall Street crisis.
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