Jared Akers

Maintaining a positive attitude and rechanneling anger through perspective and practice

How to Remember Today Years From Now

It was a beautiful summer day in 2007. My girlfriend (now my wife) and I were visiting her son and his wife. They own a small house in a rural town about twenty minutes away. It was to be a short...

A simple Thank You is fine

When someone gives me a gift, I should accept it. A compliment is a gift. When someone says, “you look nice today,” the correct response is “Thank You.” Not “well I don’t wear this shirt that often,...

Having a healthy relationship with myself

Before I was able to have true and meaningful relationships with others, I had to learn how to have a relationship with myself. That’s hard when you don’t really know yourself. Although I didn’t know...

Where I’m supposed to be

Yesterday, after my morning prayer & meditation, I wrote down a passage from “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn  Beck. I wrote it down to share with a group of people I would be speaking to that...