I should begin by saying this world we presently inhabit will never be without conflict. It’s the defeated nature of the thing. Getting challenged is to be expected. Things will not always go your way despite your earnest wish. You will find yourself, in varying degrees, at various times, being pricked, prodded and poked. Clashes…
There’s a great little book affectionately called the “Blue Book” that used to be handed out as a collateral study to this life changing class I had just taken called, “Power For Abundant Living.” The study, accurately named “The Bible Tells Me So” begins with a chapter called “Release From Your Prisons.” The idea being…
Have you ever heard “The truth shall set you free?” It actually comes from a verse of scripture spoken by Jesus Christ himself. But, have you ever considered what that really means? Some people claim that it refers to lying and if you tell the “truth” you will be free now. Though truth is the…
I have been working with a close friend lately on a project that helps people to connect with what is most important in their lives. Part of that process involves figuring out your life’s purpose. That, my friends, is a very deep concept. I say deep because it requires you to peel away all of…
Lately I find myself intrigued to discover why certain things make us cry or at a minimum tear up. I’m not talking about sad feelings or our response to sad events. I’m talking about that inexplicable feeling you get when you witness a certain scene in a movie or a commercial and something inside of…
When I first began writing, “Just Some Good Thoughts” a number of years ago, my goal then was and my goal now is to help people escape the dark side of life; escape the suffering; escape the bondage; escape the pain. In that vein, my aim is to point people towards the light; towards the…
“Some days you’re the bug and some days you’re the windshield.” “Some days you’re the dog and some days you’re the hydrant.” “Some days you’re the hammer and some days you’re the nail.” I’m sure we have all felt like that at times. Some days for some inexplicable reason everything feels hard and laborious compared…
As a burgeoning human being, you have this wonderful capacity not only to experience your life as it is, but also to imagine what your life might become in the future. Being marvelously unique, your awareness comes from within with all of the associations and connections you can muster based almost exclusively from your own…
You know, it’s no marvel that many folks spend the majority of their lives living from one turmoil to the next. The world and its negative circumstances, the impending and ever present threats concerning the future, the agitation and tumults of daily life, all loom on the horizon assaulting folks minds from sunup to sundown.…
Feeling agitated and uneasy, though increasingly more and more common, is not a human being’s natural state of mind. Troubling and distressing thoughts eat away at our physical health and erode our sense of well being. Stress, which is typically first experienced in the mind, has been known to critically damage the delicate nervous system…