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Retraining your Brain through Prayer and Meditation

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on November 18, 2023
Recovery from troubling thoughts, emotional surges, addictions, and bad habits can be greatly assisted by retraining the brain.  To get the most out of everything you want to learn by hearing and reading, it will benefit you greatly to start five sheets of paper, or better still, five documents on your computer that you can […]
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Lessons Life Has Taught Me

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on September 15, 2023
The elements of the good life, of God’s life coming through us, are the fruits of the Spirit:  love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22-23), and also such attitudes as courage, wisdom, hope, forgiveness, healthiness, and surely a sense of humor.  Focus on these and they will grow, as will […]
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Growing Younger on the Inside

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on September 15, 2023
At seventy-five, I am less and less interested in the exterior of people’s lives – what their bodies, clothes, houses, vacations, or social media images look like.  I pay more attention now to how their eyes twinkle, how their voice dances, how their laugh breaks out across a room, whether both children and adults enjoy […]
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Friendship -- An Endangered Treasure

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on September 15, 2023
Do you have a true friend?  What is a true friend to you, anyway?  To me, a true friend is someone you can count on—to be there for you, to help you out of trouble, to believe in you, to keep your secrets, to have your back, to tell you the truth, to love your […]
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Making the Case for Marital Fidelity

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on July 25, 2023
            I grew up in the fifties, thinking that marital fidelity was just what you do.  All the Schmidts I had heard of had apparently been faithful to their spouses, and I was told that it just make good sense, for families and for society.  At church we were told this was one of the […]
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By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on January 30, 2023
Core Values for WELL Inc. Universal Generosity  ~  As Jesus gave to the woman at the well, from our inspired                                               wellsprings inside and in community, we are giving away grace                                               and truth to all who want it. The Common Good  ~     In our communications, actions, and work products, we inspire […]
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The Biblical Basis for the APW

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on January 7, 2023
Scriptural Elements of the WELL Mission Deuteronomy 6: 2-3           If you obey all His decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life. . . .  Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey.  NLT Psalms 139: 23-24               Search me O God, […]
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Overcoming Anxiety and Worry

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on September 26, 2021
Recently the Virginia Tech massacre once again filled our news and talk shows with one of their favorite enemies of the people, terror. We all need to know how to cope with fear, so I’ll give you here my favorite enemies of fear. Those who study and rehearse these can keep them handy as an emergency tool […]
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Forgive? Why? Who? What? When? and really, How?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on September 26, 2021
Perhaps the number one killer of mental and relational health in America is the refusal to go through the learning experience of emotional pain.  But I believe our next biggest mental health buzz kill is our refusal to forgive others and ourselves.  I just have to take a stab here at trying to reduce this […]
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