Dr. Carolyn Coon

 This may seem obvious but have you ever considered that you can’t win the battle (typically against – fill in the blank) unless you are willing to fight?  Until you take your stand (make sure that it’s as much FOR something as against something else) and intentionally become a warrior that nothing will ever be […]

  You’ve been invited to an elegant, dress up in one’s finery sumptuous dinner party. Pleased and excited, as you enter the parlor you see many people you know. Waiters are bustling around serving plates of hors d’oeuvres. After milling and chatting with others and enjoying appetizers, you leave the party and go home. What’s with

  Every day is a step in our journey, unless we plant ourselves and refuse to move. Every day is an opportunity to live a life of purpose, of meaning… without striving. At the end of the day, do you take a moment to look back at the start of the day and see your

  Is your life too comfortable? Are you moving into the ‘complacent’ stage? Have you stopped stretching yourself? The lack of ‘stretching’ is typically the best sign that you have succumbed to what is known, what is liked or enjoyed, and you are in an unruffle-able place. Is this really what you want? Ignoring those

  Do you? Of course. It seems we all do. Not always a good idea. However we are warned not to do this. Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the Lord with ALL thine heart and lean NOT on your own understanding.” (Caps, mine) But still, we will trust in ourselves first. I’m not certain that

  Simply because you believe in one (thing, concept, person) doesn’t necessarily translate into believing in the next association. Nothing is ever ‘automatic’, at least, I don’t find this to be the case. For me believing in and accepting that there is a God was a given. He was ‘introduced’ to me when I was a

  What is your opinion on this state? Does it give you a nice, warm, safe feeling, that all’s well with the world? Or does it give you a bad taste – a sense of sameness, defined as boring? Do the words make you long for change, for something new, different? Perhaps, though, it gives

  I think everyone, Christian and non, is aware of the concept that tells us we will reap what we sow, whether they are familiar with scripture (Galatians 6:7) or not. So, what are you reaping? Is your current state what you want? And if it isn’t, will you have the strength of character to do something

  Are you wounded? Do you feel a pain that goes so deep that it seems to be beyond even touching it, almost like it is impossible to reach the bottom? Do you hold that pain close to you, hoping you aren’t jarred? I remember when I first became a Christian (different from a christian)

  Who lives in your world? Obviously family, friends, co-workers (if you work), neighbors? Church family? Who else? I suspect there are far more residents in your world than you realize. What about what you do in your world – who are you and what do you do? Are you ‘known’? Or are you relatively