Knowing the End of One Story in the Beginning Is A Good Thing
How You Read Other Stories Is A Personal Preference There are two differing opinions of how to read a book. Some people start by reading the last chapter first to see how the story ends. Others will start at the beginning and not read the end until…well the end. Whichever way you want to read […]
What Does It Mean to Have Clarity?
Really, I Just Want to Know! What is “the thing” that I’m supposed to be doing? How do I know if that’s “the thing”? Maybe I should be doing “that other thing” instead? Where should I go from here? How do I know if that’s the right way? Am I the only one who feels […]
The Internal Battle Between Right and Wrong
Are You Conscious of Your Conscience? Each of us has an ongoing internal battle of right and wrong. To make this internal conflict even more difficult, we’re bombarded by external forces pulling us in different directions. How do we determine who’s going to win this battle? What makes one thing right and another wrong? How […]
The New Website Is Here, The New Website Is Here
“Things Are Going to Start Happening to Me Now” Just like Navin R. Johnson in the movie, The Jerk, we all want to be somebody. Being somebody is more than just having your name in print in the new phone book… or having a new website. This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be excited about […]
Salt Makes Things Better and Light Shows the Way
We’re All Called to be Saltshakers and Flashlights We’ve been put here to fulfill a purpose that is specific to us. Some figure out what that purpose is quicker than others. Often people aren’t even aware they have a specific purpose that is exclusive to them and them alone. Everyone of us is different and […]
We All Want to be Members of Exclusive Clubs
What is it That Draws Us to be a Part of These Groups? Exclusive makes us feel special. We want to be somebody, to be valuable, to stand out from the crowd. We think exclusive clubs will do this for us. If there’s only room for a few and I get in, […]
There Are a Lot of Construction Questions to Be Answered
So, Let’s Move on to the Next Ones on the List I’ve answered 11 of the 21 questions asked by the scouts. The first eleven were answered in two separate posts, what are the best construction questions and construction questions about the physical process. Let’s see if I can squeeze the […]
The World Is Full of Opportunities
It’s Our Responsibility to Make the Most of Them In our humanness we all feel inadequate. We don’t think we have what it takes to do that thing…whatever that thing for us is. One of Rev. James Moore’s seminary responsibilities was a weekly visit to a hospital. One week he […]
Round Three of the Construction Questions
We Are Made with A Desire to Belong
We Just Need to Be Careful About Where No one likes being alone without any sense of community. Just yesterday while paying my utility bill at the city office, the conversation turned to community. The lady ahead of me was visiting with the lady taking the payments. When the one paying saw […]