DOING LIFE: Daily Devotions For Finding Peace in Stressful Times
We live in a world that has been driven to the brink by natural disasters, political divisiveness, and a pandemic that threatened to crush the world's socioeconomic infrastructure, no less the health and welfare of every individual. Dr. Thurston draws on a lifetime of experience in medicine, his formal theological training in seminary, and his love of music, sailing, animals and children, to bring you these first 365 devotions. Through laughter and tears, each will reorient you to what's truly important in life, and provide you with new approaches to finding lasting peace and contentment! Anyone dealing with stress or grief, or simply feeling lost, will find solace in these podcasts!
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 1306
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
February 1 Doing Life: Simplify
"If you can't explain it to a 6 year old, you don't understand it yourself." Einstein
January 31 Doing Life: Time
"There is a time for every purpose under Heaven!" Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
January 30 Doing Life: Flexibility
"No Battle Plan Survives First Contact with the Enemy!" Helmuth von Moltke, the Elder
January 29 Doing Life: Eating
Eating together as a Family Leads to Altruistic Adults!
January 28 Doing Life: What About Me?
"A Man is Selfish, Not for Pursuing His Own Good, But Neglecting His Neighbor's."
R. Whately
January 27 Doing Life: Aging
"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
January 26 Doing Life: Laughter
"The secret of life lies in laughter and humility." G.K. Chesterton
January 25 Doing Life: Dogs and Grandchildren
Ever Wonder What Unconditional Love Looks Like?
January 24 Doing Life: Darkness
Darkness isn't really a thing; it's only the absence of light.
January 23 Doing Life: Empathy
"Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care." Theodore Roosevelt
January 22 Doing Life: Self-Driving
We Are Not in Control of Our Destiny Ultimately: It's Called Providence
January 19 Doing Life: Forgiveness
God Knows How Hard it it to Forgive: Look What it Cost Him!
January 18 Doing Life: It's the Little Things
Loving Others is in the Little things
January 17 Doing Life: Jesus Loves Me
Why do we call God Father? Because He Adopted Us into His Family through His Son!
January 16 Doing Life: Faith
"Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1
January 15 Doing Life: Stuff and Success
Success Has Little Do with Acquisition of Things
January 14 Doing Life: The Blame Game
Shifting the Blame Began in the Garden; Better to Take Responsibility and Ask Forgiveness
January 13 Doing Life: Grief and Unexpected Loss
Grief is a Process that Cannot Be Rushed