God-sized Goals

We have talked about goals already. I am sure you have heard about them over and over. Allow me to indulge you in a AHA-moment I had recently.  I read on a blog I follow, a post titled 3 reasons why vision goals are inseparable and it got me asking - "Are my goals God-sized,...

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Are You Waiting on Somebody?

Today, I watched a sad story of a lady who in less than one year has gone from a renown athlete to a deplorable state. All these questions about what happened for the situation to get to where it did, what can be done and who can help popped up in my mind. "Understand that your...

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Moving towards "What Moves You"

What Moves You? We move out of old houses, old neighborhoods, old territories and move into new houses, new neighborhoods, and new territories time after time. Change is inevitable. We don't like change and sometimes we don't anticipate it. We fight change most times. Others...

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Pure Gold Character

Walking even with no end in sight In every journey there is a path to follow. Some choose to travel through the less traveled on road ~ a road as Robert Frost said: "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." I believe every person's journey is unique;...

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Don't Just Dream, ACT

I recently shared about dreams and awakening our dreams. There is a creeping dream buster called inaction, which can also be labeled mediocrity. Life sometimes happens, some say. Time went too fast, after college, job(s), marriage, kids, grandkids; there was never enough...

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Dreaming Awake

Each of us has dreams.Of a better tomorrow.Not of a better yesterday.Yesterday is gone, so we dream of tomorrow. Some of us dream only while sleeping.Some when awake.Big or small, all are dreams.Mental pictures of what we envision. I had big dreams as a child.  Back...

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Response – Ability and the Three Channels

Response and ability. These two words seem to make up the word responsibility. How you respond to the events in your life; and how you utilize the ability you have at your disposal will ultimately determine how responsible you are. From changing a toddler's nappies, making...

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Missing Pieces of the Puzzle

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T.S. Eliot Life is a puzzle. A puzzle that seems impossible at the beginning. It seems that the pieces don't quite fit into...

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Trying is Not Failing, Failing is not Trying

But the waves are calling out my name and they laugh at me, Reminding me of all the times I've tried before and failed. The waves they keep on telling me, Time and time again. “Boy, you'll never win!” “You'll never win.” Lyrics of the song, “Voice of Truth by Casting...

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A Story of Forgiveness

A King gets a poor guy, let's call him Tom, that owes him 100,000 dollars. Of course that's a lot of cash, so he wants Tom, his family and all his goods to be auctioned off. Tom begs to be given time to pay back. But the King does something much bigger than that. He forgives Tom...

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Authenticity

Our definition of perfection, “being entirely without fault or defect; satisfying all requirements; corresponding to an ideal standard.” God's definition of perfection, “being in Christ; live upright and throughly furnished unto all good works.” We live in a perfectionist...

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You have one life, LIVE it fully

A friend recently shared a quote that I believe is vital to today's topic: "Life is not a rehearsal, you either leave it or live it." Have you ever reflected back on your life? Where you came from, how you were born, what your parents taught you whether wrong and...

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Making a Living Versus Making a Life

Ecclesiastes 9:4 "... even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!" This verse really means that no matter how despicable your life is now; you are better off than those who have died even if they were Kings in the jungle. The simple reason is you are alive and they are dead....

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