Is it just me, or do things seem extra oppressive lately? Seems at every turn I’m hearing heartbreaking news: a homeless child a little boy with a terminal disease a faith-filled man with cancer marriages crumbling unemployment loss of insurance violence There are no easy answers when we learn of these things. Oh, you’ll hear…
You know the toothpaste commercials—4 out 0f dentists. Or the fine print on contests stating the chances of winning–1 out of 1,000,000. How about the odds they give for side effects during medical procedures? 1 out of 10,000 will experience… I realized years ago I’m always going to be that “One in…” and it will…
Around late July I can feel the music cueing up. My feet start tapping. I’m humming the tune. The Kids-Go-Back-to-School-Hallelujah Song. By August I usually proclaim that on that first day of school, I will be dancing. One year I think I even said I’d be doing so on top of a table. …
Last week I mentioned Michael Hyatt’s recent post about changing blogging habits. It wasn’t that long ago the unwritten rule was to post several times a week. But trends change. Now it looks as if posts are less frequent so readers can absorb content, and free the blogger up to do other things and prevent…
Guess what? I happen to be someone set free from people pleasing, yet I remain vain. Is that possible? I think it is. I no longer stay awake nights analyzing what I said, what was said to me, or how to handle a potential situation. But–I refuse to wear a hat unless the wind chill…
One word unlikely to be attributed to me is conformist. When it comes to the world and the spirit that we have to do this because that’s always been done–I rarely jump on that kind of bandwagon. But this week I read a post and a light went on and my heart cried, “Yes!” Michael…