It can be easy to want change. It can be simple to make a plan. The real challenge arrives when I have to make the choices that will drive that change. Change happens – either the change that I create or the change that I allow to be created. Simple and Easy Path to Change…
[tweetthis]I am responsible for my words, actions, and attitude – it is as simple as that[/tweetthis] The excuses and the reasons had been thrown around so much that it is no wonder we are unable to see each other. I have found myself adding to the noise – especially when I want to be relieved…
I believe in a world of rainbows, lollipops, and possibilities. People make fun of my sunny disposition. Some mock me. Others scorn my hope tinted vision. “You live in a dreamland.” They chide me. I use to argue that I lived in realty. I just saw the better reality. Two things have happened that have…
I needed to take a trip to a cabin in the woods. I had never traveled to that area and it was long before GPS voices guided you to your locations. I had a map that had been drawn out and written out by the owner of the cabin. I looked over the map a…
The last several days I have gotten up out of bed to the tune of “Behold He Comes” dancing around through my head. I have spent the mornings making breakfast singing through the chorus and the verses and smiling while I did. Keep in mind that I go to a traditional Methodist service. Praise music…
I opened my email and two words stared at me. “Press on.” It had been a rough day and my reservoir of encouragement had been spent long before it was over. I found rest for my night, but the reservoir did not refill as it has been prone to do in the past. The darkness…
My husband announced that it was time to stop talking and to start producing – and by that he meant it was high time my words began to produce some change (the clinking kind). March will mark my “do or die” deadline, but I know he wants me to make a difference now instead of…
The right time is now because now is the only time. There will always be a reason, an excuse, or an obstacle trying to urge you to put off the journey. Until you take the step and make the move, you will stay exactly where you are. It has always tickled me to hear newly…
Finding my place in life takes more than just information – I have to know how to apply that information and then I have to take the action to apply that information. I can have a map of the state. It will not do me any good if I do not determine a location on…
”Someone ran over my joy.” I pointed to one of my garden signs as we drove down the driveway, but realized there was so much more to the words than I had just expressed. Friday night offered a wonderful break with dinner at Cocina Superior with some amazing folks from around Alabama and around the…