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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Say “Thanks!”

Two “magic” words: Please and Thanks! They’re called “magic” not because they possess some mystical quality, but because they actually have the power to change an environment. When these words are spoken, something happens. Hearts open. Bridges are built. Requests are granted. Tension is reduced. Thoughtfulness is expressed. Appreciation is felt. These words always make […]

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Tongue Control

There’s a small muscle in the middle of your face that can be one of your greatest assets or one of your greatest liabilities. It’s your tongue. Technically, the tongue is made up of 8 different muscles. The average tongue is less than 4 inches long. It’s essential for eating, taste, digestion, and yes, talking! […]

Monday, November 21, 2016

Activity or Productivity

Self-deception is an interesting process. It’s the practice of telling or convincing yourself that something false is true, or that something true is false. It comes in many shapes and sizes. It happens when we put on clothes that used to fit fine, but now are uncomfortably tight. Our minds look for any possible reason […]

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Survive or Thrive?

Survive or thrive? These two words describe significantly different mindsets and approaches to life. Survival is about making it through something. To survive is to endure a difficulty or challenge with little or no margin. Thriving is something else. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines thriving as growing, developing, flourishing and succeeding. To thrive is to do more […]

Monday, November 14, 2016

Starts And Finishes

How many projects, programs, or pursuits have you started that you never got around to finishing? Most of us can look back at our life journey and see lots of abandoned plans, ideas, goals, and initiatives laying along the proverbial roadside. These “starts” usually begin with lots of excitement, passion and a boatload of great […]

Monday, November 7, 2016

Miracles

Sometimes life is beyond hard; it’s impossible! Webster defines impossible as “unable to be done or to happen.” There are things that come our way that require something we don’t have, can’t do, or are powerless to make happen. Some things aren’t just hard, they’re impossible for us. What do we do when these challenges […]

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Help!

I suppose that most folks feel the need for help at some point in life, if not regularly. I know I do. There’s hardly a day that I don’t have a question, face a situation, confront a problem, feel stressed by some burden, or experience the ache of a pressing need that is beyond me. […]

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Sweet!

It’s a word we often hear, and perhaps use regularly. It finds its way into our conversations when we’re describing food, a certain person’s personality, or some event or circumstance we’re really happy about. “Sweet!” Most of us would benefit from becoming a bit “sweeter.” Sweetening your personality will do you good, and be a […]

Monday, August 1, 2016

Listen Well

If you’re a parent, you’ve likely have had a conversation or a thousand with your children about listening and obeying. From early on, a major part of training kids involves teaching them to pay attention to the instructions and commands you give them for their good, and to follow them! Guess what? God has the […]

Friday, July 22, 2016

Synchronized For Success

One of the things I love about living in the Washington, DC area is the beauty of the four seasons. We get them all—Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. Each has it’s own enchantment and attraction. And if you get tired of one, just wait a bit and eventually a new season will arrive. Success in […]

Monday, July 18, 2016

Inside Out

Growth brings change. I was recently looking at a picture of my grandchildren, taken a little over a year ago, and was shocked and a bit shaken by how much they had changed. In about 13 months they grew significantly, and their growth changed their appearance, and more. Their conversations are different now. The way […]

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Extraordinary

This is baseball season. I’m not sure if you’re a fan or have a favorite team, or even follow the sport at all, but there’s a lesson I learned recently from some baseball stats that might encourage you. It’s about what it take to move from being an average batter to a superstar hitter. The […]

Friday, July 8, 2016

A Right Spirit

Your spirit matters! It’s far more important that you might imagine. Your “spirit” is the spiritual and emotional atmosphere inside you that you carry into the world around you. It’s your inner world, but it also affects your outer world. Your spirit is what you are inside. It’s your attitudes, your ways of thinking, your […]

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Think Before You …

… As for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness. And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness. – Numbers 14:31-33 (NLT)  The backstory of this passage is the failure […]

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Curing A Critical Spirit

It’s often been said that we’re our own worst enemy!  It’s true. Far too often we do things that sabotage our own progress, health and happiness. We’re all prone to self-destructive attitudes and behaviors. Sometimes the things that hurt us are not so obvious to us. In fact, many seemingly innocent thoughts and actions have […]

Friday, May 27, 2016

Fill Up

There’s a wise piece of advice given to grocery shoppers — “Never go to the grocery store when you’re hungry!”  Hungry people make bad choices! The same is true in the spiritual, emotional and physical realms of your life. If you’re not filled with the right things, you’ll fill up with the wrong things! Take a […]