A Little Miracle, All Its Own
Beauty. Stillness. Expansion. Oneness. Joy. Timelessness. A moment of awe. What exactly is awe, anyway? With most emotions we can
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Sharing Your Great Work
Last week I was listening to spiritual teacher Gabby Bernstein and she made the statement, “It’s my responsibility to share
The Difference Between Your Ego & Your Soul
The ego cries,”I am poor” The soul smiles, “I am rich” Learning about our ego and our soul is one
To Grow You Must Outgrow
We all want to grow in wisdom, in strength, in joy. But a principle often overlooked is that to grow, we must always outgrow, we must always be willing to leave behind and go beyond what, where, and who we have been before.
Will You Hear God Today?
Francois Clemmons listened to the voice of love and acceptance for years, but didn’t really hear it. When will you?
Joy Is an Inside Job
Joy: it’s easy to know when we don’t have it, but not always easy to know how to get it. Looking to see joy as an inside job, as the fruit of how we live our life, helps us along the path.
Heal Fear Back to Faith
We all deal with fear, but instead of struggling with it, we can heal it. We can heal fear into faith.
Every Life Lesson Is to Choose Love
Every person that God brings into our life is an opportunity for us to learn to choose love, but when that person is toxic then the love we choose first must be our own.
Plan to Be Proud
How can you make sure that you’re going to have a great day? The simple technique of planning to be proud of yourself, focusing on what’s within your own control, is a mindset that’s easy to implement and that works.
Guilt Will Only Get You So Far
Think about a big change that you’ve attempted in your life: it may be a diet, or giving up an
Unfurling Into Your Life’s Desire
When we have the courage to be open, we can find grace that will help carry us into the fulfillment of our life’s desire.
Healthy Love Heals
While a love of “beautiful trauma” may be exciting, a spirit-focused love that heals us is a much healthier choice.
How to Live Today Like a Lion
The image of what “living like a lion” most of us envision may be very different from the reality. Read about what the life of a lion can teach us about stress and health in our own lives.
Today Life Will Give You an Opportunity
Today life will give you an opportunity, to grow, to give, and to get. Choose to take those opportunities today.
Your Heart Creates Your Treasure
Jesus once said, “Wherever your treasure is, there you will find your heart.” He saw the connection between our heart
Use the Bible as a Guide to God’s Love
After my #soulspresso talk on Live a Life of Spiritual Love not Spiritual Rules I had a friend send me this
Live a Life of Spiritual Love not Spiritual Rules
Over my adult life I’ve attended a broad variety of churches. I’ve been in a rural one room Fundamentalist Baptist
Marriage: Moving From Yours & Mine to Ours
As we do the complex and beautiful dance we call marriage, we need to learn to shift the rhythm of our steps from “yours” & “mine” to “ours.”
Live Grounded & Free
In this mystery we call life, we encounter soul needs which at first appear to be opposites or even opposed
Choose Your Meaning, Create Your Experience
I was in Yin yoga. I was in hanumanasana. I was in pain. For those who don’t know, yin yoga
Create Your Spiritual Bucket List
Have you ever created a bucket list? A list of exciting places you wanted to go, things you wanted to
Every Experience Is A Growth Experience
When you’re going through a difficult situation, have you ever wondered “I wonder if I can grow from this experience?”
Succeed in Life by Taming Your Blame Banshee
When we are trying to achieve success in life, there’s one force that can foil us again and again. That
Life Needs White Space
Did you know that there’s something that’s exactly the same in a well-designed life as in a well-designed website? It’s
The Magic of Taking Life As It Comes
Have you ever had a dream where, when you took a moment to reflect, you knew exactly what the dream
Life: Enjoy the Ride
This morning I woke up pondering the nature of the human mind, what it meant to have conscious existence, and
Life Is Opportunity not Outcome
There’s the old saying, “Sometimes life hands you lemons, and you have to make lemonade.” But there’s something fundamentally wrong
Change: How Do We Thrive In It?
I was walking through briers and thick weeds, picking my way carefully to avoid stepping on any Copperhead snakes. Kicking
How We Handle Worry & Decisions
We all worry. It’s part of being human.We all have those “what if?” thoughts that haunt us. We all seem
Are You Living in Your Shack or Your Palace?
Once upon a time, a man received a letter stating that he had been named in the will of an
Boundless Joy
What is your greatest joy? The question popped into my head while walking today, and instantly intrigued me. I started
We Don’t Need to Bring Anything to God
We don’t need to bring anything to God. I know, I know. That’s engrained within us from childhood on, that
God Doesn’t Grade You
I think one of the ways we get most messed up about how God relates to us is that we think that
Walking Through the Tough Times with God
So, have you ever been through a tough time? Every faced adversity? I thought so. As the saying goes, you
How to Grow Up to Be Captain Kirk
Who among us hasn’t watched a movie as a child and thought “When I grow up, I want to be
Seven Steps to Living Your Personal Greatness
There are some people who we regard as great, who we admire and respect, who seem to be almost superhuman.
Rest is God’s Blessing
Do you ever feel guilty about taking a break, just stopping to rest? There’s part of you that’s saying “I
The Patience of a Rose
Does anyone ever think they are patient enough? I hear chuckles in the room, because I think we all can
Faith: The Giant That Lives Within You
Faith and fear are always vying for our attention, with fear often seeming to shout the loudest. But in reality, faith is a giant that lives within us if we will just listen and trust.
You Don’t Need Perfect Apples to Bake a Perfect Pie
How are great marriages and great pies alike? They both start with great (but not perfect) ingredients, and wind up with something truly amazing.
What Has Forged You?
In the movie King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Arthur has to learn to fully face the pain that forged his character to fully wield the strength he possesses. We likewise have to look at what has forged us in order to wield the strength that we possess as well.
What Do You Deserve?
What we think and how we feel make a huge difference in how we experience our life. Looking at and upgrading what we think about what we deserve in life can radically change our future.
God Is Always On Time
“A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to,” said Gandalf the Grey. Even as the impatient hobbits had to learn to trust Gandalf, we need to learn to trust in the perfect timing of God’s grace in our lives.
God Is Always Guiding
I love using my Google Maps iPhone app when I’m driving to someplace I’ve never been before. Just think about
You’re not on your last page yet…
Do you ever find it hard to hope in God when it seems like you’ve hit a wall, a situation you
Make a Gratitude List for your Love
Here’s a fun project for you to do today that’s guaranteed to make a difference in your life: Make a gratitude
God Loves Us
I thought a lot about what I would write about for Easter. I thought about so many theological things I
Unfold Your Wings
A butterfly learns patience. It spends what seems like a dark eternity in a cocoon. One day, its world opens
Look for Grace
I truly believe that God is wanting to bless our lives every day in a multitude of ways both big and
What Colors Are You Painting With?
Let’s imagine that you want to paint a picture of a bowl of blueberries. You just happen to be a skilled
Create Simple Beauty
I was sitting in the lobby of Disney’s Boardwalk Inn, thinking about what I should write, and a cast member (what
What Would You Do if You KNEW You Would Fail
I was listening to a terrific interview with author Elizabeth Gilbert yesterday. She was talking about her long journey as
Go to Your Happy Place
As I’m typing these words, I am in “The Happiest Place on Earth“— the place that brings me more joy
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Be the Person Your Dog Knows You Are
You may have heard the phrase “Be the person your dog thinks you are.” I would like to take that
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You Don’t Have to Earn Your Life
One of the most moving scenes in modern cinema is the closing scene of Saving Private Ryan. Tom Hanks is
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Write Your Own Story
In the 1998 movie The Truman Show Jim Carrey thought he had a great life and that we was in
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Don’t Pray Like a T Rex!
What do I mean by “Don’t Pray Like a T-Rex?” Everybody knows all the jokes about t-rexes and their tiny
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Try the Door
A classic experiment in animal behavior goes something like this: You have a lab rat that has to push a handle to
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Roses Don’t Need Rules
You don’t need to give a rose a rulebook. You don’t need to teach a tulip. You don’t even need to coach
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Be Truly Helpful
Here’s your project for today: Be truly helpful to one person. Not your run of the mill, everyday politeness and
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Try Some New Shoes
Sometimes we are facing a problem or situation or decision and we feel like there’s just no good answer. We
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Experience Something Real
Our world seems full of manufactured experiences that we can enjoy, but they cannot compare to the simple pleasures of real interactions with our world and with people.
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Sow Your Seed
I’ve thought much lately about how using the gifts that God gives us to serve others in like planting seed in the Kingdom of God. So, how should we go about using our gifts and planting our seed?
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Take Time to Talk
A big part of a relationship is to relate to each other, and that means taking time to talk every day. So what does that mean for the most important relationship in your life?
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Choose the Open Path
Life is often about choices, and those choices not only determine where we go and what we experience in your lives, but
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Draw Your Line
“What is it then to be properly educated? It is learning… to separate the things that lie within our power
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Give Your Gift
Today, I would like you to give your gift. What? What do you mean by that? I hear you say.
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Are You the Calm or the Storm?
My sweet wife Tina loves to tell people, “John is the calm in my storm.” But I could probably equally
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How Can I Grow?
Yesterday we talked about facing challenging situations and three words to use in any life challenge: Bring More Love. Today I want
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Bring More Love
Today you will face a challenging interaction with someone, whether in person or by phone or text or email. There is one course of action that will always get results and align you with God’s power: bring more love.
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Learn to Feel God’s Path
What does the Bible mean when it says we walk by faith and not by sight? There is a way that is beyond rules, beyond logic, and beyond emotion, and that is to learn to feel God’s path.
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Every Breath Is a Miracle
I am a morning person. That doesn’t make me any better than people who aren’t morning people, it’s just how
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God Is in the Lemonade Business
As we’re walking in faith with God all of us will face the time that will challenge our faith and
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When You Don’t Know the HOW, Trust the WHO
Over the next few days I want to break down how I approach walking by faith as a child of
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We’re Here to Love People, not Please People
I had a great comment on Facebook yesterday asking about the problem of people pleasing. If you have trouble pleasing everyone in
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Remember That They’re Human Too
I want you to realize that today you will encounter someone who will be rude or inconsiderate to you. Maybe
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Build the Kingdom of God
One of Jesus’ favorite topics to talk about was the Kingdom of God. He spoke about it in all four
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The Obstacle Is Meant to Be There
There are many ways we commonly look at obstacles in our lives– sometimes with fear, or with anger, or with
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One Small Change
A few weeks ago I started eating an orange for breakfast. It was one small change in my life for
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What Are You Holding On To?
I want to talk today about the things we hold on to, and I want to start out, strangely enough,
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Within Without Beside
Today I want us to think about three ways that God relates to us, both theologically and “in real life.”
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I’m Especially Fond of You
I went last night to see the movie The Shack, based upon the book of the same title. It is
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Imagine Getting a Hug From God
I want you to right now close your eyes and imagine getting the best hug in the world from the
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Nothing Can Block God’s Plan For Me
Discouragement: being deprived of courage, hope, or confidence; being disheartened and dispirited Discouragement: it’s a feeling we all have to deal with, often every
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You Only Need Strength For Today
“Can you please talk about “Strength?” Cause my bff/sis has Breast Cancer. And I need all the strength I need
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There’s No “But…” with God
We are all masters of the “but…” It started when we were kids: “Billy go clean your room” “But,
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Surprise Someone
Taking time to examine and reflect on your life and see how you can change and grow is a
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Let Beauty Touch You
Our hearts and souls are designed to respond to beauty. Beauty is probably, after love, what is most nourishing
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Tomorrow Is Not Promised
I was watching a Facebook Live with Sterling K. Brown (his video archive page is here) that went viral this
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Not Me But God Through Me
The way we view the world makes an enormous difference in our lives. Whether you call it our “lens” or
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Give Yourself What You’re Hungry For
You must give yourself what you’re hungry for. Not only is that truth, not only is that good advice, but
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Food Heals
Food. What’s your relationship with it? How do you see it? We can view food as a joy, a pleasure,
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Make Someone the Greatest Blessing in Your Life
“You are the greatest blessing in my life.” Those are sweet words, aren’t they? Sweet to say and sweet to
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Just Being Me Is Enough
I’ve had a problem with just being me all my life. I think all of us do. We fear that the