I've often had problems dealing with other people's procrastination - but gave little thought to my own. I am often frustrated when other people put off things i very much want them to do, but I had reasons for why I had to put off something I intended to do - because I just "intended to do too much and couldn't get to it". In a recent "Minute with Maxwell", where leadership guru and mentor, John Maxwell, spoke on Procrastination, he helped me see that it's not so much my ab

To say "People are flawed" is a no-brainer - we witness and exhibit it every day. But the higher call of being in relationship gives us the amazing opportunity to accept people, flaws and all, and love them anyway. It is not to say we should proclaim the flaws aren't flaws, or that we should embrace the flaws as acceptable - they are after all "flaws", and as such detract from the beauty of who are are at our core. The goal of sharing the Love of God is to walk along side one

Every morning, it seems, when everything is still quiet, my head goes through a review of the day before. Before I know it, my memory settles on something I wish I'd done differently! A sentence I should not have spoken, an accusation I should not have made, a task I should not have left undone. It can be discouraging, but I can instead choose to hear this review and allow it to be a prayer of confession and repentance. I can apologize for things I said, determine to complete

Have you ever been so tired of "the battle" you just wanted to curl up in a ball under the covers and sing "make the world go away"!? It's a funny image if you've never been there - but I suspect there are many more people nodding their heads in recognition than laughing at this question. The truth is this world is not battle free and everyone gets tired. but we have a shelter greater than any danger, and resources far above our own efforts. One devotional I read earlier this