The more life progresses on the more we keep on keeping on and many times with a pace and urgency that dilutes the very quality of our life's purpose. Our time here on earth is finite and that creates a never-ending rat race against time; a race we will never win. The issue with chasing time, never-ending deadlines, exterior lives, instead of slowing down to chase after God is we end up living hollowed lives. I hollow tree trunk will collapse without it's important infrastr

As we approach Valentine's day and are in American Heart Health Month let's go beyond the typical gestures and declarations of love. Let's dig deeper and reach higher for the examples of whole love. Let's proclaim to the one who loves us most and best that we are open vessels for which a more holy love can be poured into. Let's put first the one who loves us unconditionally and infinitely so that we can learn to pay that forward through the means of our Obedience and our h

Growing hurts, that's why their called growing pains! :() Growing dosen't stop when we become adults, in fact, it accelerates and the direction of that growth depends on our choices and our knowledge. There are many people who have 'grown' in their youth greater distances than their elders and then there are some people who seemingly seldom appear to grow. So how does all of this growing take place? The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can k

Cast all your care upon him; for he carter for you. ~1 Peter:7 Are you Casting? Not unlike fishing casting requires for us to reach out and cast our ( Rod ) our troubles into the 'rivers' of our Lord and Savior. But, instead of coming up with a hearty fish when we cast our cares, we come up with confidence in Jesus not in our own ability to handle our afflictions. And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon. ~Luke 19:

Yes the title of the post reads 'strategic' for a reason; it takes strategy to change our thought process. It takes strategy to learn how to regroup as [life] happens and as stress rises and falls. Strategy: A high level plan to achieve a goal under uncertain conditions. I think the term fits the bill perfectly! The first order of matter in our strategic plan to blow through the bars of fear and the kinds of feelings that hold us down and keep our minds imprisoned under a

[ For from his and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. ~ Romans 11:36 ] Focus! Maybe Refocus?! As we all cross the finish line of a long, and difficult year we can take refuge that our Lord has been with is the entire time. He's held our hands, wiped our tears and made it possible to move slower, or sit still; to just be wherever he wants us to be. Whenever we've felt that we can't go on, he's the rope that's pulled us through and gi

, [ In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again. ~Alan Alda ] Often the holidays are stressful enough and add on grieving the loss of a loved one can bring on depression and a sense of distress because they magnify the loss; not to mention the fact that our holidays have become a circus. Mass consumerism, and pointless frivolity have resulted in diluting the true meaning of

All great and precious things are lonely. ~John Steinbeck [God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. ~Psalms 46:1] Loneliness is one of the most widely experienced afflictions of the human condition. We're all sinners ["All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" ~Romans 3:23] and because of this sin nature we experience a spiritual separation from our Creator. [The result of sin is death, spiritual separation from God ~Romans 6:23]. However, G