When Life Feels Like One Long Failure
Feel like a failure? Like you don’t deserve happiness? That even if you could behappy, the rug would be yanked out from under you? You might be wrestling with something […]
Meier Moments
But God…
We have seen so many changes in this past year, and it’s hard to wrap our minds around this “new normal.” Simply put, we have our pre-COVID lives and our […]
Pause: Making Space for Your Soul in a Jam-Packed Day
Do you feel like you’re busy ALL the time? Our days are often filled to the brim with activity. Work. Chores. Kids. Sports. Volunteering. Friends. Exercise. The list goes on. […]
Do You Respect Your Teen?
Parents of teens have a high (and hard) calling: Help them become adults. Depending on the day, we might give in to every whim because we don’t want a battle, […]
Lament
This past year with the pandemic, being quarantined, and social and political unrest, we often struggle to make sense of daily life. As believers, we read 1 Thessalonians 5:18, which […]
How to Break the Worry Habit
A mom and toddler stopped every few feet on their walk to look at a bug, a sprout, a rock … Nothing escaped the little girl’s gaze. A woman coming […]
Finding Peace in a Time of Strife
Many of the symptoms that bring people to the Meier Clinics may be described as a lack of peace: interiorly, relationally, and globally. We at the Clinics have heard many […]
Aftershock: 4 Steps Forward
If you’ve discovered that your spouse is viewing pornography—maybe over years of your marriage—you likely feel as if your world is crumbling. The sense of betrayal can seem overwhelming. You […]
When You Can’t Find Your Space
In her book Chosen for Christ*, Heather Holleman describes having dinner with a tight-knit family: At this table, besides me, were grandparents, two teen brothers, a father and mother, and […]
Pursuing a Self-Disciplined Life for the New Year
Some time ago (before COVID), I was enjoying some soup at Olive Garden with some friends, and the waiter briskly walked up and daringly put that nice hot basket of […]