If you can’t, it’s virtually impossible to love others. God’s first commandment is to love Him with all your heart, soul and mind. The second is like it “Love your neighbor as yourself.” So it starts with you. Love never gives up – so accept yourself with all your failings…because we all have those. To […]
Be a Simple Person
Today’s world is all about the spectacular. Instagram and other social media is all about one-upping someone else. It’s all for show. But nothing about it improves the world. Why this obsession with promoting one’s self? Greed. We figure we are owed something by the world. How about, instead, becoming involved in being part of […]
No Conditions
Do you know an encourager? Maybe you are one. An encourager helps make another person more determined, hopeful or confident in the next step. It elevates their hope and trust. An encourager has no conditions about their encouragement. No demands. No agenda. It is a spiritual tool used to build another up. Think of someone […]
Ordinary People
What makes a good person? I don’t mean just someone who is nice to know because they are famous or wealthy. Often, our heroes are great athletes – but many of those have no moral character. A good person, one you would call your friend and trust with your life, is usually humble and kind. […]
All The Days of Our Life
If we live to 90 we will have lived 36,184 days, including leap years. Seems like a lot – and yet it doesn’t. So we need to maximize them all – right? We don’t want to end up like a dead pond, with water trickling in but nothing coming out – no circulation. No life. […]
Different kinds of love
Valentine’s Day is in two days and I’m struck by the outpouring of loving thoughts on this day. However, you also read about horrible beatings and killings that happen on this day inflicted by people who feel the opposite of love. We all know there are three “kinds” of love: eros is the emotional, sexual […]
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Just about everyone knows how to spell respect, thanks to Aretha Franklin! It’s a word that has great meaning for men, as well as women. In a recent study, three quarters of men felt unloved and disrespected when involved in strife in a relationship. Respondents said they would rather be left by themselves and even […]
Playing With The Box
Do you remember watching a toddler spend more time playing with the box a gift came in than the gift itself? Often, we’re guilty of doing the same thing. We’ve been given this amazing gift of life and yet we play with its trappings instead of truly enjoying the gift of a new dawn. In […]
Pretending
Projecting a false image comes from people who feel trapped. They lack trust in others…but they are also void of belief in themselves, too. How can we break those chains? By trusting in the only one who can give the power we need to fully mature into the person He created each of us to […]
Hen House Security
Who do you call on for protection and peace? The fox? Would you trust your dog to watch your food? Those would be asking the impossible. The psalmist states in Psalm 27:1-3 (NIV) “The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life – […]
