Category: Inspirational

Inspirational

Mission: Impossible

As a fan of the Mission: Impossible movies, I’ve watched Ethan Hunt go through one death-defying moment after another. No matter how scary things get, he manages to pull off his task. I kind of envy that sometimes because in the real world, even my everyday missions can feel impossible. They feel that way, but […]

May 10, 2021
Inspirational

With Just a Little Imagination

An Unlimited Imagination Our Creator may have imagined His picture of the world long before He actually spoke it into being. After all, He had to think up a platypus and an ocean full of bizarre looking critters before He even thought about the infinite varieties of complex human beings. We can’t top His imagination […]

April 22, 2021
Inspirational

What a Mess this Is!

Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good.    If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.             Proverbs 19:2, NCV   Great Blunders Perhaps you think the desires of your heart are no longer possible because you’ve made a lot of mistakes. Your life has been messy and that could mean you’re stuck, and nothing can […]

April 19, 2021
Inspirational

Stir Up the Waters

Too Many Excuses? When life doesn’t move you forward, how long are you willing to wait? How many excuses will you use to keep sounding like you’re really trying? Would you make excuses for 38 years? The Bible story in John, chapter 5 tells about the man who was born crippled and waited 38 years […]

April 15, 2021
Inspirational

More Sugar, Less Vinegar!

Soft Hearts, Please! I read a thoughtful quote that said, “The biggest judgment of God on the world comes with the hardening of people’s hearts.”  As we look at local headlines and news reports, it appears that most of the world walks on stony ground, with stony hearts to match. Some think soft-hearted people can’t […]

April 12, 2021
Inspirational

Undeserved and Under-served

I’ve been musing about these two words, “undeserved” and “under-served.”  Inserting that one extra letter “r” helps define how we may choose to live. A lot of people imagine they deserve more. In fact, they feel sure they didn’t get everything they should have or could have. Of course, someone else must be to blame. […]

March 30, 2021
Inspirational

The Choice Is Yours

  We like to have a choice about how we want to run our lives. We value our independent spirits. and our God-given talents and abilities. As we grew past the idealistic teen and young adult years though, it didn’t take long to realize that making choices could sometimes be puzzling. It was a good […]

February 12, 2021