Dr. Carolyn Coon

In terms of God’s plans, I don’t think He has backup plans. He has a plan and that’s what’s in place. However, because He chose to use us as His instruments and also gave us free will, we rarely follow His path to completing the plan in a straight and smooth line. Getting Plan A completed sometimes takes us on a […]

How do you feel when the black hats don’t get caught? Personally I get highly irritated. But it is true that the black hats don’t always get caught… at least, we don’t see how/if they get caught.  It was so much easier ‘in days gone by’  knowing who to root for and who to boo. I

Have you even been in a dry place? Terrible, isn’t it! That really wasn’t a question… it is terrible. However, it can be profitable, there can be an upside. It’s a question of whether or not you are willing to learn from the situation. A dry place is another word for desert. Webster tells us

Hurts, doesn’t it… when you stumble? Stumbling doesn’t always mean falling but it does mean coming very, very close to falling. Stumbling can be a warning. Do we heed it? And when I’m talking about stumbling I’m not just taking about physical falling – we can stumble emotionally, spiritually and even intellectually. For some, a stumble will

We’re told that the greatest commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength (Deuteronomy 6:5). But what is strength? Webster defines the word as: the quality or state of being strong, capacity for endurance, power to resist force and attack, a moral force. We can conclude then that this is not

I know we rarely think we have enough (everything) to (fill in the blank) but how much is … just a bit more? I suspect we really don’t have an answer to that either. But whatever the ‘it’ is that you don’t have enough of, we can use it as the basis for doing nothing. Yes,

You do understand that content and complacent are not the same thing? Complacent, in my world, is something to be avoided at all cost. But have you learned to be content in all situations? I haven’t. I do work on this but I’m definitely not there. From a different perspective, do you live your life

Both are important. And, obviously, we have to put off before we can put on. We need to rid ourselves of  our secular/carnal approaches and rid ourselves of past baggage as we become the new. It’s important to realize that we are engaged as both subject and actor in becoming the new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). Colossians 3:8

Do you ever feel that you’re in the wrong place? Or maybe you think your timing is off, that you’ve somehow ‘missed it’ or that it’s for so far in the future that it isn’t ‘currently’ viable? My first words of advice are: Don’t Assume! Too often when things are not going as we have

We live lives of opposites. And opposites do co-exist… or do they? For example: can you have faith and still fear? The quick answer is – of course. But not on the same issue, simultaneously. There are many examples of opposites: light – dark, faith – fear, hope – despair are only a few of