Busy, busy, busy! Almost every time I ask someone how they are doing, their response contains the word “busy.” I often say the same thing, so I get it. We are living in a world where people are constantly on the move, running from thing to thing, and then collapsing every night due to exhaustion. It all seems never-ending, so what can we do? Take an honest look at the schedule Reviewing the weekly schedule can help us gain a little perspective about what we’re really doing with our time. Take the time to map it all
Category: letting go
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ~Dr. Seuss One of the most negative behaviors we can ever engage in is that of comparing ourselves to others. We will either come out feeling superior or inferior. Neither one is particularly helpful. Instead of focusing on who others are or what others have, let’s pay attention to our own identity. Psalm 139 tells us that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” God’s attention to detail when creating each of us is truly extraordinary! Each of us has a
Life here in the 21st century is full of extremes. We have extreme sports, extreme makeovers, extreme home makeovers, extreme couponing, and a variety of extreme reality shows with extreme challenges. We are surrounded by people exhibiting extreme behavior. Social media feeds this frenzy by giving us a place to truly live our lives out loud. Viral videos feature everything from folks expressing their opinions in crazy rants to all of those over-the-top marriage proposals. Even the stuff of our ordinary daily lives is so often over-exaggerated that we begin to lose our emotional balance. This constant roller coaster of
“Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.” ~Isaiah 43:19
“The greatest wealth is health.” ~Virgil It is so easy to take good health for granted. Too many people wait until they are sick to choose to live a healthy lifestyle. Like so many other Godly principles, good health is all about sowing and reaping. Developing and maintaining healthy habits (sowing) will bring about the benefits of good health (reaping). As the old adage says, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Developing healthy habits does not need to be a complicated process. However, it does require a great deal of self-awareness. Before you embark on