Unless it’s a ‘thing’, you should never compare. In the ‘person, place, or thing categorization – people should never be put in neat little boxes (no matter how beautiful the box). You cannot put them in cement either… they will insist on moving and changing and growing. Don’t you? How would you like to be […]
What controls you… do you know? Perhaps I should have said – what motivates you? Motivate is a much better sounding word than ‘control’. However, I would argue that if you don’t know why you do and don’t do (fill in the blank), then control is a better description. ‘Conscious’ is closer to describing your
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Sad? Happy? Wistful? Just how is your emotional health? Never hide, disguise, ignore your emotional health because it affects so many other aspects of our lives. Whatever your mood is… how do you acknowledge and, when needed, make the necessary changes to correct? Or do you want to wallow in the mood you are in?One
Remember Paul’s ‘thorns in the flesh’? Is this how you feel? That you are stuck and are continually dealing with (fill in the blank) which has now reached the status of ‘thorn’? So… what are you going to do? What CAN you do. Backing up to Paul… what did HE do? God’s response to Paul’s lament
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This is an important question… do You believe that if you are on a dead-ended path or an ill thought out decision, that you can’t turn around? Or can you? Are you of the persuasion that you made your own bed and now you have to sleep in it? Or… that you don’t need to
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost For want of a shoe the horse was lost For want of a horse the rider was lost For want of a rider the message was lost For want of a message the battle was lost For want of a
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Yes? Do you believe this? Do you believe this for yourself?! Have you experienced this in your life? Have you ever been disappointed? What did you do? Blame God? Lose your trust in the word? in Him? How did you feel? act? A lot of questions but these are only some of the ones you
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We all find them… or they find us. Is there only a certain amount of preparation we can do to avoid them? Do we take the opportunity to learn from our previous mistakes or just keep repeating them? If we know we will get burned if we stick our fingers into the flame, are we
Scenario: you are really, really angry (hurt, disappointed, frustrated, et al) what can you do? Remember, you are a Christian and can’t retaliate in the world’s way (of getting… even?). Also, you remember your Bible which tells you, “Vengeance is mine says the Lord. I will repay.”(Deuteronomy 32:35, Romans 12:17). So WHAT can you do?
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Ever thought about that? Recently I heard this phrase spoken and I was caught by the statement. First, depending on how you define AND view the word, ‘failure’, then fatal isn’t necessarily part of the definition. Second, potentially, hesitation can be or become fatal. What is ‘hesitation’ to you? How/Does it affect your words or
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Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!