Saturday Mornings

Be yourself ; everyone else is already taken. -- Oscar Wilde

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear . -- Brian Tracy One might debate what 's...

To love at all is to be vulnerable . Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken . If you want to make sure of...

I believe more firmly than ever that He does (answer prayer).  He just doesn't confine His answers to the ways we envision, nor to the p...

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurr...

What is the difference between being dormant and being dead? Seeing trees this time of year has reminded me that being able to tell the d...

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. -- Don Herold Thanks Dav...

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else . -- Leo Aikman

When I decide to help someone -- personally, professionally, wherever -- it’s easy to think about what I want to do, even if I'm w...

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace --only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. -- Anne Lam...

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction , it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him....

True dependence is not simply asking Me to bless what you have decided  to do. It is coming to Me with an open mind and heart, inviting Me...

A most fascinating little reflection on the power and role of money in our lives: I'd been ignoring the task of addressing my ideas a...

When my brother and I first started out going door to door to our neighbors' homes with our push lawnmower and rake (I was only 9 years ...

Our parents were well intentioned but wrong: We can’t be whatever we want to be. We can all achieve amazing things, but we can’t do anything...

Every time you resist temptation, you grow stronger. Every time you choose to avoid areas that offer you temptation, you grow stronger...a...

Motivation comes from vision, not from fear. -- Geoffrey James

Love is like water. It flows. Sometimes like a flood, sometimes like a trickle, but it flows. It's always moving downward, seeping thr...

But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace ...

People with good self-control avoid temptations and problem situations, rather than battling with them. ...research confirmed that self-cont...

You must unlearn , what you have learned. -- Yoda

Be at War with your Vices , at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. -- Benjamin Franklin , 1755 Poor...

Obviously, no one likes paying taxes. And everyone wants someone else to pay all the taxes. But it's impossible for a government to ...

Luke:  I can’t believe it. Yoda:  That is why you fail.

It is hard not to notice that we respond to 'hot' personalities - those that require attention.  ...especially in the short-term.  B...

More often than not, man becomes like those he spends the most time with.

The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love . -- Galatians 5:6 My wife wrote this on one of our windows...I am so...

The desire for immediate relief from specific problems has driven Christians and psychiatrists to seek and prescribe quick solutions with li...

If a litany of naming all things good and beautiful directs us into grace , then a litany of complaints deforms us. I have been cataloging m...

How do you become better tomorrow ? Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes , but remember wh...

Most folks are about as happy as  they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to the only ...

I ran across this reading recently and these 3 things in particular stuck out to me; I think they're helpful advice for daily living.  ...

If someone tells you to go someplace and you don’t know where to go and, from what you have heard, it’s quite tricky in getting there becaus...

I love feeling superior, more influential, more important, and more noticed than everybody else. I cried about what a fool I’ve been... -...

When one loves, one does not calculate. -- St. Therese of Lisieux

Circumstances allow us opportunity to be shaped. In our culture, circumstances  (particularly bad ones) are often viewed primarily as som...

We all need space. Sometimes, the best thing we can give to another person...is space. Space to think often gives me opportunity to feel. ...

Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and u...

Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure when he will a...

When we are at peace , we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times, we empty ourselves so that God may more ...

We don't often see ourselves for what we truly are...either direction...as bad as we really are or for the goodness that is truly within...

 

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spiri...

The Lord will lead you. He himself is with you. He will not fail you or leave you. Don’t worry . Don’t be afraid ! -- Deuteronomy 31:8

Now is your time of grief , but I will see you again and you will rejoice , and no one will take away your joy . -- John 16:22

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble . But take heart! I have overcome the w...

Whenever my husband and I hug each other in the kitchen, my 3-year-old daughter is inevitably there within two seconds. She squeezes through...

Pain is our second-to-last teacher. This begs the question, if suffering is the second to last teacher, what is the last one.  ... more s...

Where? How many? How young? What terrible questions for a society to have to keep asking itself. No, our violence-rich culture does not...

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. -- Tryon Edwards

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. -- Florence King

I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them ...

We tend to see what we want to see. ...perhaps worse, we tend not to see what we don't want to see.

Every year now, it seems a new old Christmas carol sneaks up on me. This year, so far, I am a bit overcome by the quieting power and glory...

I am moved by this presentation of the pain that surrounded what otherwise is celebrated this Christmas time of year. There is, in fact, ...

It would seem a bit large of me to claim that I can tackle 'everything' that comes my way. Every day I need physical energy, ment...

Gotta say, if a sunrise like this morning's doesn't 'wake you up', I'm not sure what will. It was fabulous beyond des...

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength . -- Corrie ten Boom Thanks, David, for this one. Remind...

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd . -- James Crook

A pessimist is a person who wants to be an optimist, but has a grasp of the facts. -- Norman Augustine

I have come to rather relish the notion that a sunrise  (like yesterday's) is an indication -- if not a heralding -- that God has been u...

We can so easily become focused on what isn't in others. Perhaps serving our own self-promotion, we use what 'should be' to ov...

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. -- M. Scott Peck This is one of those that at first appears rather self-ev...

The goal of teaching is not to teach; it is to create learning. The key to learning is engagement. The key to engagement is creativity. ...

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind . -- Romans 12:2 I am intrigued by this ver...

The brain may be located in the cranium, but the mind is located throughout the body . -- Candace Pert

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what...

Forming a habit of turning to God in our lives is like developing muscle.  It has to be worked, stretched, exercised regularly or it becomes...

  POST GAME Review: What was true in Bo and Woody's time is still true today; you can't win Big Ten championships if you don'...

Songs   can help us take a few steps toward healing . Songs are safe containers for the best and worst that life has to offer. -- Linford...

Thanksgiving : We all have so much for which to be thankful, especially when we don't confine our gratitude to possessions . The dirt ...

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without b...

How much of our busyness and our business has this - diversion - as its deepest root? It is not only when something terrible happens, like ...

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading. -- Jim Elliot This morning , with... the night...

  Another great day with friends at the Big House!  Click pic for more pics....

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. -- Peter Drucker

The main reason we have dysfunctional education policies in this country is that the teacher’s voice is almost absent from public discourse ...

What you think you can’t handle — might actually be God handing you a gift. -- Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Continue Reading more f...

'Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘This is what I ...

It's harder to fall out of the will of God than you think...chew on that for a while. -- Lorraine Green

Humanity, potential with God, all great knowledge is this, for a man to know that he himself by himself is nothing; and that, whenever he i...

To that which your heart clings is your god . -- Martin Luther

We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through it all the time. -- Thomas Merton It's whether ...

One characteristic of the recent elections is that there seemed to be very little listening going on.  We hear a lot about a divided countr...

You creator God        who has ordered us               in families and communities,               in clans and tribes,             ...

Let’s meet at the same table, with the same host, to remember the same things. We’ll remember that real power in this world — the p...

Click pic to listen to Phil Keaggy !

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough. -- Meister Eckhart At one point in my l...

Faint the blow of wind on leaves Warm the tang my old bed cover Darkness quits like tip-toeing thieves A day begins like any other. Co...

A study published earlier this month by researchers at North Carolina State University, Brigham Young University and the University of Calif...

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. -- John Dryden

Motivation will beat raw intelligence almost every time. The single most important trait that our schools, families and other institution...

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos. -- Kenneth Clark

There is something a bit indescribable about mornings. The older I get, the more I recognize the wonder and beauty of them (like today...

What is it about effort that so many are afraid of? ...that makes us too willing to let those who do it, do it? We love stories about the...

If God were to return and judge the world of evil, what would happen to us? Would we be able to inhabit a perfect world? What happens when...