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Balance is Essential

Being balanced usually keeps us in line or at least moving straight ahead at an even pace. Have you ever drove really fast in your car only to find the steering shot, the car or truck vibrating and wobbling like some carnival ride? You realize the front end alignment is out of whack and itContinue reading “Balance is Essential”

CONFLICTING CURRENTS

Have you ever gone swimming in the ocean or a large river only to get trapped in a current or undertow? How could this be? You’re saying to yourself”, Everything appeared to be calm”! All of a sudden, a whirlpool or riptide sucks you under water and you begin to panic because you are nearlyContinue reading “CONFLICTING CURRENTS”

Let God Turn It Around

January always brings both pleasant and unpleasant surprises. The new year becomes turning over a new leaf. The problem with a new leaf in the cold winter is that new leaves don’t grow in the winter. They fall off the branches before winter and the trees look naked. Where I live, near a pond locatedContinue reading “Let God Turn It Around”

Quietness and Rest

In Quietness and Rest You Will Find Refreshing in 2025 The New Year usually starts off with a bang and the busyness doesn’t seem to want to slow down. Yet in the stillness of the winter months this can be a good time to slow down and perhaps hibernate a bit. What do I meanContinue reading “Quietness and Rest”

Choose to Move Forward in 2025

Another New Year will be soon upon us and it’s out with the old in with the new! For some of you the challenges of life and the pressures, stresses financially, health, have been excruciating and painful, saying to yourself, “this year cannot end soon enough!” For others it was a good year to reflectContinue reading “Choose to Move Forward in 2025”

When Losses Come

WHEN LOSSES COME IT IS NEVER EASY This is a time of year where we are reminded to be thankful for all the blessings we have from God which may include health, prosperity, friendships, family, etc. But what about the loss or losses you may have experienced recently, this past year, or evenseveral years? PerhapsContinue reading “When Losses Come”

Making Wise Decisions

What keeps us from making wise decisions? We continue to live in a culture that screams at us for instant gratification, or we get tempted to become impulsive. There are ‘no magic formulas’! Too often when a major crisis hits us we get tempted or tested to do something stupid or irrational.For example, the lastContinue reading “Making Wise Decisions”

Overcoming Disappointments

The “unexpected” or disappointments seems to be the theme the last few years. What else could go wrong in my life you may be asking? As we have heard before, when it rains it pours. However, for some the flooding or the bleeding has not stopped. The sickness your facing is not getting any better,Continue reading “Overcoming Disappointments”

Slow down You’re Moving Too Fast

I’m sure you thought of that song ‘slow down your movin to fast’ as you saw the title. Wow we are winding down the stretch and into the holiday season soon. Why does everybody seem to be in a rush? I was driving this week on route 495 and some people were 80 to100 mph.TheContinue reading “Slow down You’re Moving Too Fast”

Dust in the Wind

Have you ever been caught up in a heavy dust storm? They are quite the scorcher with severe wind burns, blinded by the dust and sand, even cars and people can be buried due to the severity of the storms whirlwind force. God the Father created us human beings from dust? “From ashes to dustContinue reading “Dust in the Wind”

Sunken Ship

The little red boat says, “Sunken Ship”. “When the storms of life come, the wicked are whirled away, but the godly have a lasting foundation”.Proverbs 10:25 When the storms of life arise in your life how do you respond? Do you fly off the handle? Maybe the drama so sensationalized that the people around youContinue reading “Sunken Ship”