As we were driving to our beautiful mountain getaway in Colorado. My then three-year-old granddaughter, Jadyn, asked where our cabin was located. I said, ” Our place is located right where those five lines come down the mountain and join at the bottom.” I pointed to the lines on the mountain which are actually the avalanche shoots you see in …
Two Principles that Can Change the World
Last night I was captivated by two speakers at the Compassion International appreciation banquet. Both men began their lives in hopeless social, spiritual, and physical poverty. But they didn’t stay there. People they had never met lived out two principles that changed these boys lives and as a result, changed the lives of thousands of other children. A 23 year …
Three Steps to Eliminating Explosive Emotional Buildup!
When I was speaking with Women of Faith, I listened as Nicole Johnson spoke about emotional explosive gases that had built up in her life. One day she couldn’t find a sock that she knew she had put in the dryer. Suddenly there was an explosion of rage and frustration. This was not “Sock Anger,” she explained. The missing sock …
5 Resolutions Empowering You to Spit in the Face of Fear and Live!
Last week Americans watched in horror and some with fascination as two young men paralyzed a city of more than a million souls. For days people huddled in their homes, mostly because authorities requested it as a strategy to smoke out the cowards who had planted bombs at the Boston Marathon, but many others huddled in fear. I am …
Do You Exercise this Source of Amazing Strength!
When is the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe? The kind of laughter that made you scramble for a tissue and made your ribs hurt the next day. The average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day, a 40-year-old, only four. If you doubt those figures, watch this clip of my four-year-old grandson, Tyler. Time it! Then do …