Faith and Favoritism – June 30, 2017 – When you were a kid, did you get treated like the favorite, or the not- so favorite? I was an only child, so I was the favorite, at least in my home. What the world treated me like was sometimes an outcast, or better put, just outside the popular group. Occasionally allowed to join in, but almost never allowed to shine. As an adult, my job for many years was based on competition. Being in the right place at the right time. I took pride in my work, knowing that I did Read More
Forgiveness and Freedom
Forgiveness and Freedom – June 29, 2017 – To forgive or not to forgive, to be freed or be free? To reconcile or not? To bury the hatchet under ten feet of dirt, or to bury just deep enough to leave the handle sticking out? Those are the hard questions. How long we let someone else offend us is our choice. Forgiveness is not to set the other person at ease, it’s so that we can set ourselves at ease. Unforgiveness is like a weed in your garden of thoughts. Weeds don’t need water or fresh soil to grow, they Read More
Tempting Shortcuts
Tempting Shortcuts – June 28, 2017 – Temptation is as common as dust. Temptation comes when we choose lives that don’t follow God’s plan. When we choose the to make the things of the world more important than God. We all need to work and have families and have lives, but do we include God in those choices? To live a Godly life is to include Him in our relationships and our decisions. “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man.”(1 Cor 10:13) God desires to have a relationship with us, that is His plan. When Jesus Read More
Prayer and Relationship
Prayer and Relationship – June 26, 2016 – Hello friends. Where does prayer come from? In my opinion, prayer comes from one of two places, either our heart or our mind. Would you agree? Both have a level of belief. I also believe that prayers can come from both our heart and our mind. Generally speaking, prayers tend to go to God as a question starting with “could you”or “would you;” with an underlying question of “why this” or “why that.” Friends, we live in an instant gratification world where we think we have to know and understand it all. Read More
Praying to Flourish
Praying to Flourish – June 23, 2017 – God is not only the navigator of our life, but He has been called the master sculptor as well. There is a parable that says He is the potter, we are the clay. I love that thought. He is also the gardener of our lives. Just like the Japanese Banzai gardeners who sculpt and prune and fertilize their trees, God molds us, shapes us, and encourages us to be something great in His eyes. God prunes the negativity from our lives if we let Him. But we have to let Him do Read More
God’s Work
God’s Work – June 22, 2017 – How does God want us to live? God wants us to be coachable, I think. Coachable at the speed of His voice. God speaks to us with a small voice from inside us, from the voices of those around us, the words on paper that we read, and the actions of others that we see. His Holy Spirit is inside us and all around us. Some call this voice inside intuition, or gut feelings. Whether you’re a believer or not, that internal voice is unmistakable. Trouble comes to us when we don’t listen Read More
God’s Word is Good
God’s Word is Good – June 21, 2017 – What do you think when you hear a toddler say, “Enormous” and it has an idea of what that means? What would you think of the parents? Would you wonder what they are teaching the child? Sure you would. I would, we all would more than likely. God gave us language to be able to communicate with others. God gave us His word to know Him. He gave us His son Jesus to be able to communicate with Him. Enormous is the volume of knowledge and wisdom contained in these 66 Read More