Paul & Susan’s Recent Posts

The Butterfly Principle

Today is a beautiful day, a day like today is appropriately associated with butterflies. It is for me then a great day to remind myself of the “butterfly principle.” A caterpillar IS a butterfly in potential just not in actualization. You and I are that caterpillar. Inside of us God has placed brilliant potential and wonder. You are who you are destined to be already, the actualizaton happens when...

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In my defense

  I have had 3 people in the course of a few months say to me, “why didn’t you reach out to me?”  I fight the urge within to defend myself. I want to defend myself all the day long, because I feel quite justified. That’s what justification does, it reduces the dissonance the accusation may have brought and allows us to dwell again in the place of blame....

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Me and my big mouth

Posted by: Susan Dunk I just went to the dentist. Every visit while I’m lying in the chair being blinded by the light above, I think back to being a kid at the dentist. I think back to him saying, “Susan, you open your mouth so wide! What a great job you do, I think you open your mouth the widest of anyone I’ve ever seen!” To some people...

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I am guilty.

Posted by: Susan Dunk What is worse than receiving a bill in the mail? A red light camera ticket. And I just got one. You have the  3 options: 1) plead not guilty and fight it in court 2) plead guilty and request the fine be reduced 3) pay the fine. I momentarily considered pleading not guilty. I am a fighter and when I was little one of my...

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