There has been much penned regarding the importance of controlling oneself and the benefits are evident. But, tonight is not about controlling yourself. Tonight is about everything else you think you control. Outside of yourself, and that is tenuous at best, you are not in control of much. You cannot guarantee an outcome. You can…
In life, all of our conflict comes from our enemy. Every trouble, every angst, each and every assault on our soul, all from the same enemy. Yet, people remain unclear that they are even in a fight, let alone who it is they are actually contending with. Remember the movie, “The Usual Suspects” and the…
God gave us nature, not Mother Nature, to help us to understand how life works. Nature is God’s handiwork. It is unlimited creativity played out in our reality. Every growing thing has a cycle, a pattern that plays out. It has a time to grow and a time to establish roots and a time to…
Much of the unrest we experience in our minds comes from the thoughts we choose to entertain. The world is a crazy place and it is not an environment we can control. Our thoughts we can control. The conclusions we come to, we can control. What thoughts we entertain and respond to, we can control.…
You might find this quite odd, but as an avid gardener, I actually speak to my plants. I walk around the yard and tell them how well they are doing. I use words like spectacular and wow as I take the time to appreciate them. Some struggle a bit and I let them know if…
In the spirit of full disclosure, I have never been a fan of religion. I’m overwhelmingly a fan of a relationship with God, but not religion, so much. The people I saw that were religious, admittedly not a large enough sample, seemed to me like they were sucking at life. Sucking in the sense that…
I understand that we are all unique yet share many characteristics. Something I’ve always considered unique about myself is my mindset towards life. I tend towards the happy side. I’m not exactly risk averse. I don’t generally carry negative expectations for my life. That does not mean fear hasn’t smacked me around at times and…
The time period we live in today is referred to in the Bible as “Man’s Day” where man does all the judging. Have you ever noticed? The world we live in lives embroiled in judgments. People judge how you look, where you live and the car you drive. It is as if they are all…
I learned long ago that the believer’s only enemy was fear because fear defeats the promises of God. Not defeated in the sense that God could be defeated, but defeated in terms of stopping the believer from receiving the results of the promise. Fear is never based on truth. Fear is another option. Fear is…
Golf is such a mental game. There’s a reason you can hit 90% of a large bucket at the range, yet can’t tie two good shots in a row on the course. What was relaxed got tense. Focusing on clean contact morphed into add power and other weird stuff. Easy stuff like chipping turns into…
