Gratitude

  We have life, health, husband, wife, children, home, car, job, money, etc. If you take a look around there are people who don’t have what you have or haven’t accomplished as much. Today, many people take things for granted and find it hard to be grateful. There will always be things that you are not grateful for because –life happens. Yet, there are people who would appreciate and value what we refer to as, nothing much. If you have lost it all and working on a...

A Thought

It seems as if the months and days are flying by, before you know it the Christmas season will be upon us. There is a saying “time waits for no one” and we can see how true that statement is. What can you do to redeem the days to make them meaningful? How can you touch the life of others by your actions? Each day can become inundated with things and busy work that keep you absorbed in your To Do list until you forget the thoughtful things in life. We can forget...

Let Go and Discover

We hold on to things and people, and they hold on to us. We have family, friends, money, cars, jobs, debt, wealth, obligations, health issues, etc. that we are subservient to, mentally and physically. We become trapped within ourselves by the demands from these things. Today, is the day to “Let Go and Discover”. The demands can cause stress, depression and confusion, and the word peace sounds like a foreign word or you feel that having peace in your life is...

Giving Advice

Advice – An opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation. (Cambridge) Let’s take inventory on how many times people share their story or situation and we are quick to give an opinion or advice. Before we can determine if they are soliciting advice or not, we give it. It’s natural for people to give advice based on what are common sense solutions or from their personal or professional experience....

Putting Life In Perspective

2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV) So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. You are having one of those days? When you feel as if life is passing you by. Everyone is calling on you for something. So much to get done until you freeze. Bills piling up. Family needs are screaming at you. Tension on the job Feeling lonely One or more of these things can overwhelm you until the stress is...

STOP

“Stop” is a word that doesn’t need an explanation, however, the reason why someone says stop does. There are people visiting amusement parks that love the thrill of being on a roller coaster ride. The ride raises their adrenalin to another level, that’s what they live for. On the other hand there are people on the ride that’s yelling stop, I want to get off. Which one are you? Many things in our lives have us on a roller coaster, they are moving us through life so...