The Right Boots for Your Vocation & Loving Your Neighbors
When I first began my career as a credit union marketer, I told myself I would be there five years tops before moving onto bigger and better things. Having never been exposed to the credit union industry prior to that time, I thought it was just a “bank...
Baseball Metaphors for Moving Forward in Life
It’s hard to keep moving forward when life is throwing curve balls, change ups, and screw balls. And we sometimes might even get beaned whether we’ve stepped up to the plate or not. But we must keep moving forward! In their book Home Run: Learn God’s...
Securing Your Nest Against the Storms of Life
Every spring, my family looks forward to welcoming birds into our trees as they build their nests and begin their families. We are treated to “fostering” many robins but have also had doves and blue jays stay with us for brief seasons. It’s great to watch them...
Why Emotional Hoarding Neglects Jesus & How to Fix It
We hear a lot about the hoarding of physical things, but we don’t often consider hoarding in an emotional context. And rarely – if ever – do we consider its relationship to the Cross or Christ’s atonement for our sin nature. In many regards, we harbor a lot of...
Review: Coffee Shop Inspirations: Simple Strategies For Building Dynamic Leadership And Relationships
From time to time, I like to spotlight and/or review other bloggers and authors who are also helping others achieve a refining life in some degree. Today, I’d like to introduce to you Jed Jurchenko, his blog (Jed Jurchenko’s Coffee Shop Conversations) and his...
Why True Hope Requires Leaving Behind the Baggage of our Pasts
When life is in a terrible rut, things lack color and everything has a hint of sorrow. When I have felt this way, I’ve had virtually zero motivation to do anything about it. I feel powerless, inept and downright worthless. I ask God to “change my...
Finding Your Life Meaning in Jeff Goins’ the Art of Work
The events and happenings of our lives are perfectly ordered by God. Having reflected, analyzed and considered my life many times over and from many angles, I have come to understand and accept this as an undeniable fact. Even in the smallest of contexts, the evidence...
The Secret Reasons Why You Won’t Succeed
I am more afraid of success than I am of failure. There. I said it. It’s something I have long-known to be true, but always shove under the rug and pretend doesn’t exist. I have always been a driven person, prone to dreaming and envisioning a day when all...
We Are Not Rocks. We Are Not Islands.
When I wrote the poem, That Rock, I was drawing upon the two verses that appear below. They both offer a great foundation (pun intended) for how to live in continual recognition that I am nothing without the mercies and grace of God. And a man shall be . . . as the...
How Flowers Inspire Pathways Out of Darkness
Sitting at home this morning with my kids on a snowy morning as I await the burning off of yet another two-hour delay, I am longing for warmer weather and the wonderful things that the season of spring brings. I am reminded of a lesson from 1 Peter 2:9… Show...