Dr. Carolyn Coon

  Jehovah Rapha: The Lord that Heals (Exodus 15:26). I would suggest that since we don’t understand why we get sick, we seem to feel the need to explain it. I believe with every fiber of my being that, without question, unequivocally – God NEVER puts sickness on us and never would. However, I do believe […]

   Jehovah Jireh: God will Provide. One of the first declaration God states is that He is Jehovah Jireh. What and Who is Jehovah Jireh?   According to His Word, Jehovah Jireh is translated and described as: The Lord Will Provide. This is not a maybe statement. He WILL. We see Him giving examples of this from the beginning. In Genesis

   Who has God shown himself to be in your life? Perhaps I should say… Who have you allowed God to show himself to be in your life? ‘Who’ is incredibly important because it sets the foundation of your relationship with God. Have you allowed Him to be Who He says He is? Do you relegate

  This word invokes a feeling of danger, of ‘someone or something’ intent on stealing from us! Our material or financial resources. For some people this is also associated with a feeling of helplessness, of being a victim – that the ‘thief’ has more power over us than we do. I believe, and would argue, that there is far

  I never heard that word until I was wandering through the internet. In this case, wandering meant with no discernible purpose… just seeing what might be ‘there’. And there the word was. It was indicating a mindset that allows you to ‘make mistakes’ and not continue to hit yourself over the head with ‘errors’. (Yes… there were

  I could have said, ‘games’, but I didn’t want to give the wrong impression. In another lifetime when I was an undergraduate, the people in my dorm liked to spend time late at night, after preparing for whatever classes were to happen the next day, by discussing those ‘deep’ question of life. Actually we would play

  How do you ‘handle’ it, when you are the one hurt? Granted that the type and who of the hurt-er does make a difference. But the point is – what do you do with those feelings? Denying and/or ignoring what you feel never works. And it doesn’t make any difference if your feelings are ‘accurate’ or

  What I’ve learned about self improvement, at least for me and my life, really are quite important. Though there undoubtedly are a multitude of competing voices and impacts (and suggestions) on our attempts at self-improvement, the beginning is critical. Actually, the beginning is everything. We can think about and talk about improving, but the only way

  This is another word that’s on my favorite word list. It’s because of what the word represents, what the definition is. It’s very personal. Paradigm: “standard, pattern or model,” but it also says that it is a prototype which means that it is, “…(to be) tested so that the design can be changed if necessary, …something that serves

is in the definition. A ‘duh’ comment possibly, but it’s one of those that we don’t think about and too often apply our definition, presupposing we have one, to others by a kind of osmosis. Wrong. And it can be fatal. Simply because an item/activity/event/state of mind is in our queue in the definition of