Dr. Carolyn Coon

I deliberately put the word in caps because it is so serious that it needs emphasis. I know that there are many in the church world who would like to mitigate the word to make Christianity more ‘popular’, but you really can’t. Sin is devastating. The current popular definition of sin is ‘missing the mark’. […]

You were aware that you have an enemy, yes? I don’t care how nice you are, you have an enemy who is actively involved and will use whatever devise is effective in order to see you destroyed. Actually if you are ‘nice’ you probably are a target. Your enemy doesn’t like you, never has and

If you were to write your own epitaph right now… what would you say? Would you be happy with what you’ve accomplished? Would you be pleased with who you’ve become? If someone else wrote it – how would it mesh with what you would say? Would you emphasize the same ‘things’ that someone else would?

Death is difficult to deal with. Perhaps it’s the finality that makes it so difficult or the sense of loss, the pain of separation. There also always seems to be the accompanying emotion of guilt. regardless of what you have or have not done for the person who died, you always feel you haven’t done

Have you ever had a brush with death? However, the larger question is… did it change your life? Did you make some lifestyle changes as a result of the experience? Or… after a few day, weeks, months did life revert back to what it was prior to the experience? Maybe you made some promises to

How do you define ‘quality of life’? You do need a definition, a description or how else will you know you are or are not experiencing it? Additionally, your definition may not be similar to anyone else – we all have our own definitions. Regardless, what are you doing right now to attain your quality

I wonder if we think about the cost of freedom. I know I rarely do and, like so many, take the freedoms I have for granted. There’s a kind of invincibility about us when it comes to freedom – it’s our right, it’s our heritage. No one can or ever will take it from us!

We all need our own quiet place. Actually this is a physical place, a place where you can go to be by yourself and regroup, refresh, reflect or do whatever you need to do for yourself to catch your breath in order to continue. It can be a time for long-term planning and/or decision making or it

I’m not certain there is anything more detrimental than doubt. Once it is part of the fabric of your thinking it seeps into everything and sullies all in the process. Doubt can be invasive and undermine your way of reacting and interacting. If you doubt, you rarely can look at the person/idea in the same way again

Are you a bridge burner? Once you’ve decided on a particular action/direction do you burn the bridge your on and those behind you? I’m not talking about the ‘quality’ of the decision – right/wrong, good/bad, smart/stupid, etc. – merely the finality of decision. Do you ever reassess? Again, this is not a statement on the