I find myself in a continual rant lately in regard to how God works with His children and delineating His job from our job. I don’t think I can stomach another Facebook status that explains away a lack of results or an unanswered prayer by saying how “God works in mysterious ways” or that “God has a…
Alan Alda once said, “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” We all make certain assumptions about life. These assumptions are based on many, many factors such as our previous experiences, our upbringing, the ideas and…
The good Doctor used to say that it seemed to take people much spiritual growth before they would believe that God is good always. The world around us cannot fathom it or conceive of it. If you notice the media (including social media), you will be deluged with syrupy, pious, platitudes (yes that was a mouthful) explaining in…
Everybody’s living for the weekend! Have you ever wondered why we are all so happy when it’s Friday? (TGIF) When I think of Friday I think of driving home and then having two days to do whatever I want! Whether I have fun plans like going tailgating or not-so-fun plans like painting a basement, I still…
Living for today….
I’ll bet you didn’t know that life was meant to be lived one day at a time. The crazy world we live in is always traveling at one hundred miles per hour. We have access to information at our fingertips that we would not have even dreamed of in the past. If the computer takes…
It seems nowadays that many people equate any type of relationship with God with fears about their own sins or inability to somehow live up to what they “think” God requires of them. I have often wondered how some folks get offended if you even mention God to them, like it somehow is an indictment…
During this thankful time of the year I was thinking about what it takes to be thankful. As humanoid units we often tend to dwell on what is wrong with our life. We don’t have enough money…enough love…enough free time…enough fun! While the simple answer seems to center on what is enough, the real issue…
Despite popular self-help teachings there is no real power of the mind. Lots of people have made lots and lots of money trying to convince us that our minds are somehow powerful and that all we have to do is learn to wield our power and life will be just fine. If you want to…
I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a way to think properly, did you? You would think that as “thinking” beings we would have this all figured out by now. There’s just one problem however. We can all think anything we want, but not everything we think is good or beneficial to us. In…