Still on that inability to live from day-to-day with an eye towards the life that awaits us after this one. The goal is to be able to navigate being fully engaged in the hustle of daily living/working while integrating an eternal perspective into our thoughts, words and actions. One way to do this is byContinue reading "Squad Goal: Retraining Our Thoughts"

"If you're helping someone and expecting something in return, you're doing business, not kindness". I chuckled when I read that one! It was one of those memes being passed around on the internet, author unknown. This is a simple modern-day explanation of what Jesus noted while at dinner in the home of the Chief Pharisee,Continue reading "Charity? or Business?"

Several years ago, a friend who had just gone through a bitter divorce proceeding, remarked to me that she taken away one life-changing lesson from her ordeal. "I will never love a man more than I love God again". I remember being stunned, it was food for thought. I was quite young at that timeContinue reading "Can You Love Two Beings Wholeheartedly At The Same Time?"

C.S. Lewis concurred in his writings with earlier Christian writers that pride is the essential vice, the foundation of all sin, and since we are all sinners, then we are all in various stages of pride. His premise? The minute  a creature is aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terribleContinue reading "I’m Entitled To That! The Face Of A Spiritual Cancer."

By grace and mercy, I am privileged to be counted as one of the sheep in the flock of my Shepherd. I did not come cheap, I was bought at a very high price. He felt so strongly for me that He paid the highest price possible when bidding for my soul - His ownContinue reading "A Brief Essay: My Shepherd and My Lord."

We all long and pray for God's blessings in all that we do. In The Beatitudes, (Matthew 5:3-12), Jesus made a case for eight noble character pursuits, pronouncing blessings on those who will express them now and promising future blessings as a further reward for those who will persevere in adopting them throughout their lifetime. DoubleContinue reading "Be-Attitudes: Double Reward Points For The Taking."

Employee, Employer; Master, Servant; Boss, Subordinate....titles in this world.  Thy Kingdom Come, we pray everyday in The Lord's Prayer. Well, in this kingdom that we seek to replicate in our hearts everyday, titles mean nothing. We are all fellow servants in the kingdom of God answering to the One True Boss. Whatever our circumstance inContinue reading "We Are All Fellow Servants"

Even if you are on the low-carb bandwagon, you cannot deny that the whiff of freshly-baked bread is one of the most pleasant aromas in the world. Aah, yeast, that magic powder. One tiny teaspoon in the kneaded dough and your loaf of bread  comes out of the oven in all its glory, looking fullyContinue reading "The Irresistible Aroma of Freshly Baked Bread"

As we raise our children through their formative years,  we are hopeful that their personalities will develop positively. We pray that they don't inherit or observe and copy our negative attributes. While expecting them to be individuals with their own peculiar characters, we hope that they pick up our best traits and encourage them inContinue reading "Every Parent’s Dream"

I am a great fan of specifics in prayer petitions and always encourage those I pray with to be specific in their requests, as long as we conclude the prayer with a submission to God's will. Exercising our spiritual authority to decree and declare our temporal wants without humbly acknowledging the caveat of God's willContinue reading "The Secret Password: Mercy"