Been awhile, I must say, since a blog has bubbled out of me, but it’s time! Haha Have you ever seen the bumper stickers that say, “No Fear?” Great advice for living, but saying it and living it are two totally different animals. Fear is perhaps the most detrimental thing that can happen to a…
We’re all familiar with cause and effect, right? If you introduce a certain cause then you get a certain effect. If you mix two parts hydrogen with one part oxygen you get water, over and over and over again. But, what if the cause isn’t related to the effect? What if what you think is…
So the very wise and successful La Detra White posed the question, “Does THE THIRD DRINK really change us ….. or in disguise does it bring out what indeed was always there?” An enticing question, I’m sure you would agree. I think I just heard Carrie Bradshaw saying it and the end of Sex and…
If you have been living long enough at some point you realize that you do many things the same way over and over again. Oh we don’t do it on purpose, but our tidy little pre-programmed brain stores up the information and spits it back out on demand. So we develop habits; many, many habits…
There’s a great epidemic that takes place in the world today! It is not technically a disease, though it behaves like one. It is not in the category of a plague, but tends to plague good folks on a regular basis. It is extremely common, normal and ordinary, yet in reality should be uncommon, abnormal…
As it turns out, my wife and I have successfully implanted a real zest for living life to the fullest into our children. Not too long ago we had one of those famous, intense, passionate Washington discussions about that very subject! During these heated debates it is not uncommon for the discussion to go on…
I bet when you read the title about “Mind Control” it made you flinch a little right? Do you remember in the 70’s when people were all concerned about “brainwashing?” The basic idea was that when you got into some group (i.e. cult) the members would feed your mind certain thoughts and inundate you with…
Have you ever felt like your mind was running all over the place? You know what I mean, right? It’s those times when your brain is filled with so many thoughts; many of them anxious thoughts and you can’t seem to get things settled down. Have you lost your marbles? Why does that happen to…
Have you ever wondered how you can tell if you are doing things for the right reasons? Well, the easy answer is found in how you feel while you are doing what you are doing. Actions that we take for the right reasons always leave us feeling satisfied, encouraged, and blessed. Actions that we take…