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Where are you in your journey to your destiny? How are your dreams shaping your destiny? Perhaps the questions are: do you believe in your destiny? And… do you believe in your dreams? The operative word in both questions is ‘your’. Let’s face it – YOU are the only one who can achieve your destiny […]

Death is difficult to deal with. Perhaps it’s the finality that makes it difficult or the sense of loss, the pain of separation. There also always seems to be the accompanying emotion of guilt. Regardless of what you have or have not done for the person who died you always feel you haven’t done enough.

Memories…. pleasant? Unhappy? Some memories make you laugh. Some make you cry. But all memories evoke a response, a reaction from you – they are always laden with emotions. That’s not a negative statement… or a positive one, it is a given. Many times they come unbidden – triggered by a song, a smell, some

There is always an undercurrent of excitement that accompanies something new: new home, new job, new… It’s what I call the clean slate promise. At this point, nothing has been written, there’s no predetermination of what will happen – it’s all new. And new, while it can be slightly anxiety ridden, is always exciting. New

I firmly believe in trusting but I also firmly believe in exercising care when you do trust. In a previous discussion on trust I spent most of the time talking about you trusting others and in asking a lot of questions about how you decide whether or not to trust another person. Actually the answers

Trust is an extremely important concept. But it isn’t just theory or a philosophical construct because trust permeates our interactions and colors our relationships. Trust is also a two edged sword – your trust of others, others trust of you. It is not automatically a reciprocal situation. I don’t believe there is anything remotely reciprocal

‘Toast’ is usually the stage beyond ‘burned out’. This is an extremely incapacitating and debilitating position. Perhaps you’ve not experience ‘toast’ but I suspect ‘burn out’ is familiar. We’ve all suffered being burned out, many of us have experienced this a number of times and have promised ourselves that this last time was the last

At some point, or multiple times, in all of our lives we find ourselves totally flummoxed! Through frustration or confusion or inadequate information or any number of other aspects, we simply don’t know what to do next. What do you do?Do you ask a trusted colleague, one who would understand your predicament, what they would

Most people in the church world view finances as The focus for stewardship. And indeed most of the examples from scripture reinforce that view. A steward is typically the person who has charge of the money of his ‘master’. A more contemporary definition would include those whose primary responsibility is to serve food and drink.

The final consideration in this brief overview discussion on faith is the fact that faith justifies us. ‘Justify’ is one of those words that is rarely given sufficient importance. Webster says: to show to be just, right – to be free from blame or guilt. It was this revelation by Luther than gave rise to