Dr. Carolyn Coon

  Blocking you? Do you think/know that you have/are facing stones in your life? Are they only irritating pebbles? Or blocking boulders? Or both? You do realize that pebbles can increase in size and become boulders if you don’t deal with them, yes? What do you do about them? Try to go around them because rarely can they be […]

  Dare to believe! Will you? Do you? Believing is ALWAYS your choice, your decision. What and Who you believe in is also your choice. You do have free will… and all of the responsibility and ramifications from that status. My belief is that if (not really a question) we want free will then we

  Some people don’t seem to know how to begin. It’s like they’re waiting for a sign or a signal to thrust them onto the ‘stage’. If you don’t know how or where to begin, then look at what’s at your hand. Then… do that. If you don’t feel that (fill in the blank) is the

   What’s your heart full of? Both Matthew (15) and Luke (6) talk about whatever is in the heart – the mouth speaks. It’s like a pitcher that is filled with water and as more is added, it overflows. So what’s your heart overflowing with? Love? Pain? Joy? Frustration? What is in abundance? Never forget

  God… but let Him love you too. Actually, He loved us first. If you think you’re not as good as you want to be with the first half of the sentence, you are undoubtedly right. But I also consider this as a ‘good’… especially when we allow ourselves to motivate us in a more

  You do realize that there really is no such thing as the ‘little things’?  In the flush of (fill in the blank) whatever is part of what is happening is important. Too often we don’t appreciate that it is important or we downplay the subsequent ramifications. The point, bottom line is that Life and

  I would argue that one of the most insidious feeling/thinking anyone ever experiences is doubt. It can stop us from progressing and can arrest our attention without resolving anything. Doubt is rarely a positive force to understanding and can be totally misleading or misdirecting. When scripture warns us that our enemy (1 Peter 5:8)

  For the most part, I am a silver-linings type. I tend to be able to find a positive in most situations. This is NEVER a rose-colored glasses approach nor is it that I ignore the issues and problems, it’s that I try and find the positive so I have a solid platform on which

  This could have been your destiny, and mine. It is the destiny for those who refuse to accept Jesus. Talking about the cross – what it means, why it happened, what this means for us, helping others understand, etc. – is never as complex as we tend to make it nor as simple. Simply:

  What do you do with your expression of Christianity – put it on the shelf along with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit? And you point to it when you want others to notice. I really don’t believe that Christianity is meant to be safe. It’s a great deal stronger than most people may