According to the Council on Foreign Relations’s Global Conflict Tracker, 27 ongoing conflicts are currently taking place globally. They categorize conflict into three groups: worsening, unchanging, and improving. Right now, no conflict is described as improving. Of those worsening: Conflict in Ukraine. War in Afghanistan. Political instability in Lebanon. War in Yemen. The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Conflict in Ethiopia. Add to these troubles nationally: An uncertain economy. Rising inflation. Increasing violence. Where can we find security? For all practical purposes, Moses never had

The Satisfaction with Life Scale was created by researchers as a way to assess an individual’s satisfaction with their life as a whole. People judge how they feel about the five following statements using a 7-scale scoring system, with 1 being “strongly disagree” with the statement and 7 being “strongly agree” with the statement. 1. In most ways, my life is close to my ideal. 2. The conditions of my life are excellent. 3. I am satisfied with my life. 4. So far I have

I remember growing up and playing the Game of LIFE with my sister, Deb, and others. It’s a board game where players travel in small plastic automobiles that pass along, over, and through small mountains, buildings, and other features. They travel through life – from early adulthood to retirement, with college if necessary, jobs, marriage, and possible children along the way. It’s a fun game, but it cannot create what we all long for in real life – fulfillment. When God first appeared to

Madonna, American singer-songwriter, said in a Vanity Fair magazine: “All of my will has always been to conquer some horrible feeling of inadequacy. I’m always struggling with that fear. . . . My drive in life is from this horrible fear of being mediocre. And that’s always pushing me, pushing me. Because even though I’ve become somebody, I still have to prove that I’m Somebody. My struggle has never ended and it probably never will.” We all search for significance. We may search

Judd Apatow is an American comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter, and incidentally, was born in Flushing, NY. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Judd Apatow responded to the interviewer’s statement: “You’ve said that as an entertainer, all the success in the world won’t heal you.” Apatow replied, “It doesn’t do anything. There is a great distraction in thinking, ‘When I get to the top of that hill, it’s all gonna be awesome.’ And then when you get to the top of the