Dr. Carolyn Coon

  “You can’t undo history but you can make it.” Isn’t that a great line? This comment was uttered in a program I was listening to, and it captured my thinking. Maybe not particularly original, but it still is a good thought. It should also cause us to stop and consider where our emphasis is – then or […]

  How would you finish that sentence? How do you describe and define you? And yes I know I’ve asked this question multiple times before and in multiple contexts. Still a valid question… and a continually evolving one. Do you define yourself in terms of the things you do? Perhaps you define yourself more than

  Since no man is an island, I’ve interpreted this to mean that everyone follows someone. Yes? Most important – who do You follow… and why? Do you know? There must be a reason! Their power? Their personality – intelligence, charisma, forcefulness, reasoning, (fill in the blank)? There has to be a reason why you

   This is another of those ‘topics’ that we may talk about and yet have differing definitions… mostly dependent upon our ‘experiences’. I really don’t believe we can self-declare it for ourselves. I know I’ve written about righteousness a number of times because I keep learning more about what it means. I’m going to cut

but it’s not the me I want me to be! Ever feel like that? To me it’s the lament Paul talks when he says he does those things he doesn’t want to do and doesn’t do the things he wants to do. (Romans 7:15.19) What’s our answer? What can we do about this issue or

  Stage 1: first comes knowledge. Knowledge is a willful act – you must willingly pursue it. Scripture, Proverbs, tells us to seek knowledge. It isn’t always an issue of liking the knowledge, it’s not valued this way. Knowledge doesn’t hide or elude us but it does require us to pursue it, to discover. Knowledge

  You do realize that with every action, every word you utter you are planting seeds? Some of the seeds, like the description in Matthew 13 and Luke 8, fall on the wayside, some on stony places, some on thorns, but some on good ground. This is the Parable of the Sower. But what we

  As a writer, you sometimes Know (capital K) when a thought is going to turn into a post or become part of the next book. This was very true for me with this title (so, it’s a both/and). Honestly, there are times that I believe that my primary ‘writer skill’ is as a kind of

  Such a Big word. Typically, individually defined. But what are the characteristic that you include in your definition? Trust has to be more than just a feeling, more than simply esoteric – we all need to have reasons based on our standards that define trust and give us clear understanding of when trust has

   I read an email from “Dayspring” as I started this thought. It said:     “…With every New Year comes new promises we make to ourselves.      …Instead of self-promises, let’s make some promises to God…”This got me thinking about WHO we make promises to. Which led me to looking at our promises to