What am I mad about? What am I sad about? What am I anxious about? What am I glad about? Recently I came across these four questions as a helpful tool to be proactive in maintaining helathy relationships with God, self and others. We often come to the Psalms because they give us words we struggle to find on our own. They don’t pretend life is simple, neat, or consistently joyful. Instead, the Psalms invite us into a raw, honest, emotionally rich conversation with God. And am

There’s a simple sentence that carries profound relational truth: “We must learn to healthily separate so as to healthily attach.” At first, it sounds backwards. Isn’t attachment the goal? Aren’t we made for connection, community, and closeness? Yes — but the way we reach healthy connection may surprise us. Scripture and psychology agree: real attachment requires real identity . And real identity requires the courage to stand on our own two feet before trying to hold someone