2021 What’s Next? Happy New Year! What a year it was due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, which caused a worldwide pandemic. A lot of fatigue, uncertainty, political divide, social unrest, and discouragement carry over in 2021. How do you plan and set goals amid the carryover of this nasty virus? Lord, please remove the fear… Read More »
Unfinished Hurts
When we finally repent of our mistakes and forgive those who have hurt us – as God calls us to do over and over again in his Word – then the light of God shines like a bright, healing beam in our hearts and clears the vision of God before us. ~ Matt Brown What… Read More »
Preordained Destiny
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Our decisions define us, not our circumstances. When we face challenges, our choices will determine the degree of our success or failure. Fate chooses our beginning, but our decisions determine our destiny. When we decide to… Read More »
Toss the Whipping Stick
“…occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.” ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel One thing is for sure; life is hard. The world can be a dark and lonely place to live and regularly broadcast what a… Read More »
Thursday Sainthood
“Don’t try to be a Saint by Thursday.” ~ William G. Wilson Self-righteousness, Pride, holier than thou, judge, jury, and executioner are ways to describe ourselves when looking down on the world. Wilson’s quote reminds us of how quickly the ego rebounds and what happens when we become stricken with pride-blindness. We are fast to… Read More »
Rise Up
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius From the moment we learn to walk, we discover what it means to fall. We fall in all kinds of ways. We fall physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. We say things like “I have fallen out of touch… Read More »
Boundaries Are A Good Thing
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?” ~ Edgar Allan Poe We set boundaries to protect the people, places, and things we love, but we also set boundaries to keep out those we don’t. The boundaries we… Read More »
The Grace and Space
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself that makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling… Read More »
You Are Already Okay
“I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.” ~ Jordan Peterson Have you ever had someone tell you that you have potential? How about you know everything is going to be okay, right? Growing up, I… Read More »
Momma Knows
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” – Golden Girls There was a show on tv in black and white from 1954-1960 on CBS called “Father’s Know Best.” Fathers may know what’s best in most cases, but mothers know best in all cases, and mothers know everything. Can I… Read More »
