Pro or Con

When do you feel most encouraged?  When are you most discouraged?  It may be when your week is going well, then its just a matter of time before your ‘luck’ turns and something happens that steals your joy.   When trials come regularly, it can lead us down a path of...

Greener

Who’s yard is nicer, your’s or your neighbors?  Who has a better mower, car, house, family, etc?  It doesn’t take long, whether you are 2 or 20 years old to find something to be envious of when we start to look around at others.  It is mowing season again and just...

Testify

“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”  John 18:37 How many lies do you tell in a day?  How many...

No Fair

We start hearing from a young age that life is not fair.  When we see someone else gets a bigger piece of pie, we don’t get all we asked for at Christmas, someone else won MVP, we soon realize inequality is a fact of life and pitching a fit doesn’t always help. ...

Get Away

If you had a few days without work or any other obligations, what would you do?   If you had a week to go anywhere in the world, where would it be?  Last week, I had a chance to visit with a friend I only see 1-2x each year and we eventually got to what vacations we...