Rest for the Weary

Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest… my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” How many of us are feeling light and easy on a Monday morning? In general, does your life feel light and easy? Or are you running from here to there, racing against the clock, experiencing tension headaches and tightness in your chest from all the stress... [Read more]

Give and It Shall be Given

Are there things that you need in order to shape your life into what you want it to be? Do you have a list of items that are simply lacking or need to be replaced? Do you find yourself looking at others who seem to have all those things that are missing in your life and wonder when it will be your turn to receive? If you are wishing and waiting for your turn to receive all these things that are “missing”,... [Read more]

The Difficult Ones

Who is that person in your life who always seems to know exactly what to say or do to get you from zero to rage in 60 seconds? They push and they push and as usual you walk right into the trap and explode in anger. Perhaps you have more than one person in your life who is skilled at causing you to tie your chest in a knot, scream, yell or try desperately to restrain yourself from doing something that... [Read more]

The Way with Words

What would you do if you had something to say that could change everything? Would you wait and hope that someone else will say it? Perhaps you just don’t want the responsibility when the weight of your words will most definitely have an intended or unintended impact. It is easy to go with the flow, accept life as it is happening and observe it all without taking the risk of being the one who... [Read more]

Hold Me

Dear Lord, I am coming before you right now on behalf of myself and all my brothers and sisters who are feeling overwhelmed right now. In times like these I feel like my knowledge, my strength, my wisdom is not adequate for the situations I am facing. I want to be sure of my actions. I want to know exactly what the outcome will be. I want to know that the vision I saw will come to pass. I know that... [Read more]

I’m Changing

God has a plan for your life and that plan never changes. What changes is you! You can ignore the plan, run from the plan, trip yourself up, get lost somewhere in the wilderness, blame God and everyone around you, but He still has the blueprint in His Hand. The longer you run, the longer you delay entering the blessedness of His Will. The Lord has given you the ability to choose. Are you happy with... [Read more]

He Really is GOOD!

I had awesome conversations with two of my friends yesterday in which we reviewed the history and development of certain areas of our lives. As we talked I remembered the roller coaster of emotions that I have experienced over time. I remembered the feelings of happiness, excitement, confusion, uncertainty, peace, love, anger and contentment to name a few. I thought about no matter how wild the ride... [Read more]

Take No Offense

I have come to the conclusion that people in general are too easily offended. If someone looks at you a certain way, they must have an attitude. If they didn’t greet you a certain way, they have a problem with you. If they don’t do something exactly the way you expected them to, they must not care about you. Why do we put ourselves through this? The energy we expend while being upset over... [Read more]

Seeking Forgiveness

  I recently had my eyes opened to some broken areas in my life through an awesome 3.5 half day forum discussion. I learned that I had been dragging past events into my relationships, resulting in destructive behavior and a lack of commitment on my part. I thought I had forgiven people from my past but I realized that as long as I held them responsible in any way for the breakdown of the relationship,... [Read more]

What Will You Be?

  What are you willing to be in order to have the life that you want?  For years I said I wanted to be married and have a family but I was unwilling to be committed. I also wanted peace and happiness in my life yet I was not obedient to the will of God. I formed this belief that God was somehow angry with me and wondered if I would ever please Him. Have you done this? Have you wished for your life... [Read more]