Mastering your emotions is the key to moving forward after a revealing moment has occurred in your life. As believers we are expected to deal with what life brings to us. Yet, there is a natural response to some of what we face-we shout,cry, rock back and forth seeking comfort for our aching heart. Our human emotions take over and we fail to actualize a spiritual response. Especially if what we face hits close to home. The person who has the revealing moment is affected, as are the friends and family who walk alongside them. Here are a few things...

At the moment you learn a piece of information that changes your life, what is the first response? I had this conversation the other day with HOPE publisher, Angelia White when she poignantly asked me after I had shared a life changing moment story with her, “How do you respond to something like that?” The “something like that” was my being told that the father who raised me was not my biological father. Now, in 2010 that may not be so uncommon, but as a child of the ’60s there are things that will forever remain taboo; things that are...