If I never was looked over by a selfish person, I wouldn’t have learned to be unselfish. If I never was treated poorly by a greedy person, I wouldn’t have learned to be a giver. If I was never shown no support, I wouldn’t have learned how to be supportive. If I was never shown a prideful person, I wouldn’t have learned to be humble. If I was never told harsh words, I wouldn’t know how to speak kind words. If I was never told a lie, I wouldn’t know how to speak the truth, no m

A disrespectful, nasty attitude will get you NOWHERE in life. Sorry. The “I’m grown, I can do and say whatever I want to say” disposition some folks have stunts their growth, or diminishes it for that matter, so I ask… how low can you go? By definition altitude means the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level. Synonyms suggest that altitude means height and also means elevation. So if the saying is correct, your attitude determines your elevatio

(Disclaimer: I was going in one direction with this blog, and ended up being 2 subjects in 1, so, here we go! :-D) I was asked last year to take in my mother, as she needed a place to stay for a while. I was used to my own space. I was used to my way of living. I was used to it just being Rex (my dog) and I, and our routine. I had already a schedule. I already had my steady electric, water and gas bill. I was very comfortable living with myself. I didn’t want to break my comf

I’m such a babe in following Christ! I mean, really… an infant, a baby, a toddler… just barely 2! But hooray for 2 and going on 3! I mean, on one hand, I want to applaud at the fact I am doing so well, then on the other side, I feel like I am not doing enough compared to ‘seasoned’ Christians. Get my drift? Everyone has heard, when you first get saved, old things are supposed to pass away, and you are becoming new person, literally. We can also think of it like, you are 1 yea

…is to do absolutely nothing. Period. Sometimes we want to get back at someone who hurt us, our friends our family…. someone who acted injustly or got away with something. We want to pray that those who hurt us will ‘get theirs’. Our human nature wants to lash out, key cars, leave nasty texts or voice mails, perform riots…basically do harm for harm.  And when you feel like that, and do those things, you have completely missed it, and fell right in to the enemy’s trap, serious

Words are simply, words. Right? I mean they have no significance when I talk. Right? I’m just merely, talking. Right? Our words & conversations have the power of death and life. (Proverbs 18:21). Over yourself. Over another. Over your circumstance. They are announced in the atmosphere, at the point of no return. I think we forget that sometimes, I know I do. We just say what we feel, whatever comes to mind, then sometimes regret those words later, if we feel sorry. I speak th

Personally, the I am feeling the weight of the world right now. I have been having to hold my tongue about so many things recently, and it’s like God I know you call me to have a gentle spirit, holding on to what is only good, and letting go of what is negative. But in those moments, when it seems like the kindness is being drowned out, tempers flare and assumptions start to run, I am quick to ‘forget’ what I am called to do. In so many different directions, life is pulling m

As we look in the scripture, the NLT version of 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 goes a little like this: 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Could you imagine a being on t

Who can I run to… to fill this empty space? Who can I run to…when I need love? I used to play Xscape so much, ever since I could download music. This song, especially, was one of the songs I would have to play on repeat when my little feelings were crushed and when someone broke my heart. This song clearly illustrates someone who desperately needs another they can run to. And as my many blog topics have been floating within my head the last 2 months, this very line describes

It’s such a shame how much validation we need from others. So much that sometimes we stay in that constant state of feeling sorry for ourselves, throwing pity parties, always bringing up your negativity and burdens in conversations to others, always saying “Yeah, I’m making it” and complaining, bringing up drama always and just being depressive. If you’re like me, you really get tired of hearing from people like this, so much, you tune them out. I know I do from time to time,

Where I work, there is a lot of communicating: through phone, email, fax, scan and even through snail mail. The other day, I emailed one of my suppliers in Boston about a receipt that I didn’t receive. And his response was “Yeah I sent it the other day, but, I will resend it to you in the morning.” That BUT killed me. As I looked at the email I had said to myself very modest: given the fact, apparently I didn’t get the receipt, there is no need to even say he sent it. Right?

“God help us. We must break out of the boxes of our normality and dare to go close to those we don’t understand. We must not use words like, “those people” with pointed fingers, hard hearts and spiritually superior attitudes. By going close, we see things we need to see. We hear things we need to hear. And our hearts become tender in the way we must be tender. God help us. Instead of running alongside people seeking to understand them, we sometimes have tendencies to run them