A Cup of Water

The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring. ~ Isaiah 58:11   When I spend a hot, ninety-five degree day beside a pool of crisp, clear, chlorinated water, I feel comfortable because at any time I can…

On this first day of May, I feel the need to recommit to a fresh perspective. A perspective of taking time each morning to take a deep breath and consider how God would desire me to order my day’s activities. I want to live purposefully and spend time on what is truly important. I don’t…

When I work out in the morning, I feel more ready to take on the day. Getting the blood pumping, muscles moving, and endorphins jumping really does do a body good. It’s sometimes hard to begin the habit and it’s easy to stop the habit even after I start. I guess I just have to…

Sometimes when I don’t get something done that I had planned to do in the morning, I give up with the line, “Well…I’ll just do that tomorrow morning.” This is wrong thinking. Unless what you planned to do in the morning was very time restrictive, it’s probably okay to do it in the afternoon or…

A goal needs a deadline and a process. It sounds simple but I just read that phrase today in a fresh way. If I don’t have a deadline, I’ll procrastinate every time. Also, if I don’t have a process worked out to get to that deadline, I will be overwhelmed and I won’t do the…

Walking in freedom can be broken down into three steps. Do what is right.  Doing what is right is two-fold. On one level it means to treat people with fairness and the same way you would like to be treated. On the next level, it means to do what you were created to do—that thing…

Stress-free living is a goal of a lot of people. There is great benefit in slowing down and gaining greater perspective. Wrong feelings of guilt bring on undue stress. There is a difference between conviction and condemnation. Conviction is realizing that you did something wrong. Condemnation is wallowing in guilt. If you’re wallowing in guilt…

Do you sometimes feel like you are just going through the motions of life and not really living it? I have found that I feel the most like this when I’m not using my God-given talents, gifts, and resources to help other people. I have a tendency to hold back my talents because I’m afraid…

The first lesson that I’ve learned from striving to write something daily is that I need grace. I want to write something daily to practice as well as to have a large body of work. But…I’m not perfect and never will be. And…that’s okay. Grace is with me to fill in my cracks. Whether you…