Dr. Carolyn Coon

This, …, is a fill in the blank. And it really is all of the following: time, resources, money, energy… life. When you stop for a moment and really consider how you spend each of the following you’ll find a theme, a focus that really identifies and defines you. (And yes, I know I’ve spoken […]

This is Memorial Day. A time to reflect, as Americans, what a gift of freedom we’ve been given by those who fought to maintain that freedom for us.I fear that in our ‘political correctness’ we will not honor those who died or were injured in body or spirit to maintain our freedoms. The Vietnam vets

That’s the point, new, that most Christian’s miss. When we accept Jesus as Lord we become a new creation. It’s not something we can earn, or something we can ‘purchase’, it is the free gift that comes when we become part of the Family of God. But it is a gift that will require our

When I was in college, a few centuries ago, this phrase was one of the prevailing suggestions of the day. At that time, I really didn’t agree with the thought because if anyone was going to plant me, it was me. I always wondered who the implied person was that was doing the planting and

Defeats and failures are not the same. In the first place I really have never believed in ‘failure’ then again – it could be my definition. Defeats, however, do happen and how we respond to them is critical.Definition: failure, for me, doesn’t exist because I don’t accept the traditional definition of the word. It is

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?

What’s the dearest thing to you Cosmic Reader? Your life? Your family? Your friends? Your money/possessions? And what are you willing to give up to retain it? Your job? Your family? Your goals? Your friends? Your integrity? Your life?This is not some isolated, sophomoric question – it is extremely important. You really need to know

How are you on waiting Cosmic Reader? Do you do it well? Are you able to wait to get the prize you have been wanting or do you need to experience your reward – now, regardless of what it is, even if it isn’t your prize? Are you an immediate or postponed gratifier? Most people

We live in a world that is full of compromisers and relativists and fence straddlers. And, one of the current, rather painful, straddle is Christian and politically correct. Quite honestly, not possible. Why attempt to marry two diametrically different approaches to life?The ‘don’t rock the boat’ or ‘trying to please’ mentality attempts to do both

Have you ever thought about the fact that the ONLY way one can judge whether you are a Christian is by your behavior? Sure, you can say you are a Christian but how does anyone know except by your actions? For that matter…. how do you know if you are? We have more than a