Dr. Carolyn Coon

  So, you’re a ‘good’ person trying to follow all the principles of the Lord that help develop you into a mature and effective person. Yes? And, you believe in tithing so you make certain that you tithe from your income. Yes? Now… what about the other areas of your life? Do you tithe them […]

  A friend was recently going through a time of intense loss, resulting in a great deal of grief. All of us have times in our lives that are marked with a depth of grief that can surprise us. Actually, I find the times of being blindsided by memories that can come as a complete

  Fun. Enjoyment. Relaxing. Do you allow yourself to do this? What’s your down time like? Or do you have ‘projects’ you feel you need to address, so… you have no ‘down time’? Presumptuous but… what would happen if you took that time to refresh and renew instead? Bionic are you? OK, maybe that was

  Yours? I appreciate that I’ve talked about this question in any number of ways, but… have you thought about what ‘mark’ you are leaving, what and how you will be remembered? You will ALWAYS leave a ‘tell’ whether or not it is planned or deliberately thought out by you. As long as you breathe

  I use the word ‘Father’ because that’s how I think of You. ‘God’ sounds so austere, so ominous, so grand, so… out there, and my relationship with You has been more of a Father-child. If that sounds too familiar or too disrespectful or not sufficiently awestruck – not my intent. But I don’t know

  Do you have any ‘Always’ or ‘Nevers’ in your life? What, for you, constitutes an always or a never? Do you even believe in absolutes? Personally… I do. But I am quite limiting in what constitutes an absolute. Plus, I don’t like a large number of them. My reason is that I don’t like

  Do you believe you matter? In your heart, at the very core of your being… do you believe this about you? If so then you can’t do less than your best every moment of the day. Stress-less and non-striving, but confidently your best you. I know I’ve written before about your importance, but do

  yourself? To an ideal? To another person? What!? Next question is, do you typically commit to a number of things/people/ideas? Or, are you more circumspect in your commitments? To the things/people/ideas you are committed to – how do you, or anyone else, know? Is it evident in both your words as well as your

  Is that your attitude? That if you don’t act on your best interests… who will? Even if there IS some truth to this assertion,  the larger question is – how do you go about asserting ‘your best interests’? And what do you do about the competing self-interests from others? Whoever wrote that no man

  It struck me that one of the more critical components in loving is learning about the other person – who they are, how they go about being who they are, what they like, their dreams and hopes, what they want from the relationship with you… and the list of things to learn and discover