Dr. Carolyn Coon

  It took me some time to fully understand this and I’m still discovering. The Father doesn’t need us to praise Him – we need us to praise Him, to worship Him for Who He is and what He does. Prayer is our method of coming to Him and consciously talking and fellowshipping with Him. […]

  Are you a God pleaser? Consciously? How do you know? Do you Do and say those things that would be pleasing to Him? Do you want to Be pleasing? Does it matter? How do you know you are pleasing? Have you looked into His book, the Bible, to discover what pleases Him, what He considers important?

  Do you fully appreciate that it is We who are given gifts when we accept Jesus as our personal Lord! It’s true. And do you understand or realize ALL the gifts we are given? Have you unwrapped them in your life? Do you see the riches you have been given? Yes, it starts with salvation –

 Thank heavens for Paul’s statement (Romans 7:15) about doing the things he didn’t want to and not doing what he did want. I can get so very irritated with me when I do what, primarily in retrospect, I really didn’t want to do/say. It’s like the words just spill out of your mouth before you have

  The beginning of a relationship may begin serendipitously, but the continuance is dependent upon the desires and willfulness, not just willingness, of those involved. Without continuous involvement by all, the relationship will atrophy. I know that the old saying says, “…that absence makes the heart grow fonder”, but does this really ‘work’, I suspect

  There is nothing quite so satisfying as personal discovery… at least that’s my thinking. And, I might add, these discoveries are locked into our memories more intimately. They defining who we are, sometimes with more detail than any other mode of learning. It doesn’t always need to be something ‘brand new’, it can be

  and effort… and commitment. Whatever your ‘it’ is – it takes time, and effort, and commitment because it rarely is a simple walk in the park. If your ‘it’ is important to you, has value, you rarely find it handed to you on a silver platter.   What am I talking about?  Your important parts (attitudes,

  As I was writing and editing my next book, “Be-ing & Do-ing“, I remember remarking to myself (yes, one can do this and not be a nut case) that we, not the Lord, we determine who we and others are by what they do… and how. How we go about do-ing our ‘what’ refines

  This may sound controversial but I don’t believe God puts sickness on us to teach us something. That makes absolutely no sense. Think about it… exactly how much do you learn when you are moaning about not feeling well? My point precisely. I will agree that God can use the time we aren’t well,

  This scripture has application in our lives far beyond the, undefined, context of “in well doing…” (Galatians 6:9) And yes I know we are not to add or subtract from the Word, but this is applying lessons learned and for me, one lesson I’ve learned is to not limit how to apply the lessons