Do you ever get ‘caught’ in making or acting on the RIGHT decision? Or is it later, once you’ve acted that you wonder if you should have said ‘no’ rather than ‘yes’ (or vice versa)? Simple answer. At the time of decision… did you have a check in your spirit? If so, what was it […]
Truth is truth… but it isn’t always welcomed. While you’d think we’d welcome truth with open arms, sometimes it seems we want an ‘out’ from the truth. Silly, but there it is. There are people and times when living in ignorance is much the preferred choice. It’s only a delaying tactic so I’m not sure
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If you say that you know this then do you act that way? How often do we say, ‘I don’t feel (fill in the blank)’ especially when related to spiritual issues? Can we not believe unless we also feel? Or is the definition of ‘feel’ a relative issue? A different question is – is the
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Have you ever thought about how many times in scripture we read the words, ‘I will’ from the Lord. Another example, there are 365 verses that say – ‘do not fear’. Incredible – one for each day. If we would only read one verse a day, how would we look on our days and lives?
Happen to you? I suspect we all have this occur in our lives on some level … frequently. Not really all that unusual, but it can be deadly. When you are so involved in living your life you run the risk of losing you in the process. When your plate is overflowing with demands, requests,
What are your givens? We all have them. They provide us with our contexts, our ‘ordering’, our frame of reference. Either we do this subconsciously or we do this deliberately… but this isn’t a negative. Unless we put people in cement, givens are our way of responding to our world. The tragedy… or at least
You do realize that your ‘want’ is critically important… don’t you? Who you WANT to be and become factors significantly on what you do, learn, say, think, etc… Your want is the glasses you look through and how you think about and judge you.It is always considerably easier if we do a frank and honest
Do you ‘like’ structure? Whose? Do you place your own structure for yourself or allow others to place structure on you? No choice? Of course there’s choice! Point is if you allow others to place the structure, who do you trust to have your best interests in mine when providing it? And when I said
In my world of definitions, these are NOT the same words … nor do they have the same definitions – though they are often used interchangeable to mean the same. Is one something that is done to you and the other something you choose to do? Perhaps simplistic, but accurate? Webster – submission: “the condition of
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My theme has become – even if I fail a 100 times in the day… I will always try ‘one more time’. For me, I pray, I will always try one more time than my last failure, disappointment, fill in the blank. I’m a goal setter – it gives, in my opinion, meaning to what
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