Truth is, people are messy. This is everyone, so it includes ourselves. We all make mistakes and fall short of the glory of God. But God can forgive anyone and we need to work on doing the same thing. We need to work on forgiving ourselves for past failures and mistakes and we need to…
I have a list of negative traits that never seems to get smaller, only larger. I have a list of goals that are never accomplished. And I’ve discovered the reason for many of my failures… it’s me. I am to blame! Have you ever felt the same way? Do you have a never ending…
There is a war going on out there. Another policeman shot, another person unjustly attacked, another store burnt down, another riot, another looting spree. Death, destruction, mayhem. But the real war isn’t between blacks and whites. It’s not between law enforcement and citizens. The war is between us and our own fear. This is…
Previously I wrote about the power of choice and I want to continue that thought and expand upon it. Each day we are given a new opportunity to choose to be a victim or a creator. A victim’s response seems to find blame for a negative situation. They either will blame themselves and be really…
Hey, guess what?! You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you! What comes to mind when you read that scripture in Phil 4:13? An idea that comes to me is that with Christ I can go outside of my comfort zone and do things that I wouldn’t normally feel comfortable doing. What is…
She was crying on the phone when she told me. The conversation had started with, “I really need to talk to someone… I’ve never told this to anyone before”. That’s when I learned that, as a child, my friend was sexually abused in the most terrible of circumstances. You wouldn’t know it from looking…
After 7 hours, 4 countries, innumerable mountains and cliffs, thousands of signs that we could not read, and a very close call with fuel shortage; my wife and I arrived safely in Interlaken, Switzerland. It was our honeymoon, and we were touring parts of Europe by foot, plane, train, and at this particular time: a…
This thought of mine relates very closely to Shaylee’s blog that she posted a few weeks ago about how we choose to perceive things. In recent months I have been going through some trials, and some of them have been self inflicted ones because of the choices I made. One of the choices…
The other day I was thinking to myself that I want to make a dent in the world. I told myself, “Shaylee, you are alive, which means you have the opportunity to imprint the world around you.” After this thought, I started picturing the world as a large aluminum sphere inhabited by little aluminum…
If you have never had gelato before, you are missing out. It is like ice cream only better: richer, more full of flavor, and probably has better ingredients. Across from where I work is a little gelato shop which boasts authenticity of Italian originality and flavor. Don’t get me wrong, it is quite good (especially…