Dale Carnegie's first principle Don't CRITICIZE COMPLAIN or CONDEMN. Oh how a conversation can go sour in a moment when two or more gathered. CRITICIZING others to make ourselves feel better. COMPLAINING about others to blame others for our discontent. CONDEMNING others to take condemnation from ourselves. Hmm. The breaking down of others to build us up~ UNWHOLESOME TALK! But GOD said, "Do not let any UNWHOLESOME TALK come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for b

I COMPLICATE GOD when I attempt to understand things beyond my comprehension, by searching for an answer but never finding one because I am looking inward when I am engaging in THE ANALYSIS OF PARALYSIS I BELIEVE that once I have all of my answers, then I will be able to PRESS FORWARD beyond what I am trying to FIGURE out. Hmm. But GOD lets me do it. HE watches me grow WEARY, as I strive to swim against the current, when HE is my life boat. I could easily jump into HIS

I had to do it but I didn't want to, because if I did then did it mean that they were RELEASED or was I being RELEASED? Well, I did it anyway as HE asked me to do it~ FORGIVE! And it happened. I was UNLEASHED from anger & frustration & bitterness. Just because JESUS UNLEASHED me & you & everyone else from being UNFORGIVEN the moment HE was LEASHED to the cross wearing our sins~ the small ones, the big ones, & the ones that don't even feel like sins. Oh HE opened up m

I have been PHOTOSHOPPED. It is one thing to PHOTOSHOP yourself, but to have another PHOTOSHOP photos of you, without your permission sends quite a message. You are NOT GOOD ENOUGH, so I will make you APPEAR BETTER Now, I have never PHOTOSHOPPED myself, and it has never occurred to me to do so. I actually laughed when I say the photos of myself on social media, without any wrinkles, without any laugh lines, without any squinting lines, without me. Who was that woman smi

Oh we all love them and we all want them~ BLESSINGS . But what happens when your BLESSINGS come with SUFFERING, are you still truly BLESSED ? Hmm. JESUS thinks so, as HE said it, "BLESSED are you.. ." *(Matthew 5:1-12) BLESSING 1~ “You’re BLESSED when you’re at the end of your rope..." What????? BUT "With less of you there is more of GOD and HIS rule." BLESSING 2~ "You’re BLESSED when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you..." What????? BUT "Only then can you be e

I always want to SEE HOPE, because I always want HOPE. Therefore, I am always anticipating the CHANGE that HOPE brings. HOPE~ the GREAT EXPECTATION for THE GOOD to happen. But what is THE GOOD ? Is GOOD based on this happening or that happening, or is THE GOOD that GOD IS HAPPENING, even if this or that is not happening? Hmm. HOPE is BELIEVING GOD IS ALWAYS HAPPENING. HOPE puts its TRUST in the UNSEEN for "We are saved by trusting. And trusting means looking forward t

You are TIRED. You are WEARY. And then you hear the WORDS~ "COME TO ME". But you don't have anything left in you TO COME because you are TIRED and WEARY of COMING over and over and over again to the ONE who keeps asking you to "COME TO ME all who are weary and tired and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28-30.) Do you COME one more time, or have you given up because you are TIRED and WEARY of PRAYING the same PRAYER, as it feels like the world has stopped moving and

GRACE is the OPEN DOOR to FORGIVENESS. You are treated wrongly. And there are OPEN DOORS to how you will respond. FREEDOM OF CHOICE. For there is THE DOOR OF GRACE and THE DOOR OF ANGER. Oh wide is the door of ANGER, for if you pick that door you will not be alone because BITTERNESS, FRUSTRATION, SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS will come with you. And then you will RESPOND to the one who treated you wrongly with what you believe that they deserve. But then you both will leave STILL AN

HE LIVED it. SAINT PATRICK. And today is his day of remembrance. But not so much in wearing green and drinking green, but in really remembering who he was. A teen. Kidnapped to Ireland to as a slave to herd and tend sheep. He reached out in FAITH to GOD. “The love of GOD and HIS fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods

I am GOING TO exercise. I am GOING TO eat better. I am GOING TO declutter my home. I am GOING TO ____________ . What are you GOING TO do today? GOING TO are great words because there is no accountability but only to yourself, as I know firsthand because tomorrow will be the day that I will follow through or maybe not. What if we all did that one thing, even if we didn't feel like it, even if no one was looking, even if it just doesn't feel fair, yet we do it ANYWAY ? Mothe