Tag: inspiration

  • Success looks like…

    “Laura, a fifty-three-year-old project manager, had struggled with her weight for many years. She had tried diet after diet without lasting success. Learning how to focus on gratitude, correct her negative thought patterns, and learn from mistakes rather than beat herself up, together with the elements of faith, food, fitness and friends made a huge…

  • I’ll be happy when…

    It is easy to get into the habit of thinking “I’ll be happy when… I get married I have kids I get out of this marriage my kids leave home I get a promotion I get well my kids behave better Why not be happy today? Psychologists and success coaches say that the thoughts you are…

  • For more answers to prayer, try something new

    Maybe you get every one of your prayers answered and you don’t need to learn any Biblical principles to improve your prayer power. If that is true for you, quit reading now.  If you would like to learn how to have more prayer power, keep reading. Of course we know that the main reason to…

  • Do you feel like a mushroom-kept in the dark and poop stacked on you?

    I remember when I was a child I would help my grandmother with her garden. She grew roses and fruit trees. I still remember the delicious peaches that we picked ripe from the tree in her backyard. She was an organic gardener. She didn’t use artificial fertilizers. Instead we would sometimes go out to the…

  • That wonderful time in China

    When I was a missionary to Asia there was a profound sense of joy in my life because I knew I was doing exactly what God wanted me to do. I was making sacrifices for God, but they did not seem burdensome.  They seemed easy, in fact they were joyful. I remember hearing a missionary…