Living life as we do, we spend our days evaluating and analyzing our experience. It’s the strangest thing. We interact with the world, then we tell ourselves stories about what it means. We really have no way of knowing what someone means, other than asking them, and even then you still my not know. We…
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…
We have all been taught through the years that in order to receive something from God we have to have faith, or said another way, believing. And it is certainly true that believing pleases God. What you believe is what you receive with no limitations at all. But, where this formula gets messy is when…
Every week I make an infamous video called, “Old Fashioned Friday” where your’s truly features unlimited variations of the classic Old Fashioned. It’s hilarious, at least in my eyes. I close every show with the words, “I hope you are enjoying your life.” Old Fashioned’s certainly have the potential to help you enjoy your life…
I believe one of the greatest hinderances preventing people from getting to God is religion. Oh, the irony. The one place you ought to be able to go to learn about God, insists on adding in lots of unpleasant elements. Yes, there is plenty of talk concerning who God is as you might expect, but…
Okay let’s get a little personal tonight. Do you remember the last time you felt really good? Not just happy in a moment, but having an overall a sense of contentment and confidence in things working out for you? A time when your mind was completely at ease and hovered there for awhile? Inside you…
They say you know a man by his fruit. Well to take it a step further, the fruit you are able to garner for yourself in any category of your life indicates your success or failure. This is taking responsibility at the highest level. Instead of blaming God, circumstances or bad luck, you have to…
Sitting outside on the porch in the warmer weather and enjoying the still, quiet reverie of the morning has always been one of my favorite things to do. There’s just something about the morning, long before the world machine gets going. There’s a gentleness in the air, a softness absent any sharp edges. It’s peaceful…
Generally, most people at an amateur level of golf, face a certain set of challenges throughout a round. Although they are similar, they are never quite the same. There are different clubs to manage based on distances to the hole and how far you think you can whack it. Then there’s the whacking it part.…
Imagine a world existing where other people’s values and opinions mattered more than your own. Picture a scenario where your life is always under examination to see whether or not you measure up. Opine the possibility of forcing yourself to fit in with everybody because you are so desperate to maintain their approval. See the…