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  Nowhere or Know Where Back in the day, on the old  MySpace platform, I posted a bulletin with an error severe enough to change the meaning of a phrase. In my flawed messages I said that something was going "know where." I meant "nowhere." I was only a few letters and a space off,…

  You need a big WHY for your SMILE today. It is true that you can smile without one, but it is better if you have one. It makes smiling so much easier and it is makes your story so much better. Then, when the smile causes the release of your smile hormones, the energy…

Photo by p j on Unsplash Big Rocks In "First Things First," Stephen Covey tells a story that was told him. I don’t know the sources, so I will embellish a bit. There was a speaker who was called upon to address a group of young people. As a prop, he pulled out a wide-mouth…

Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace." "Where there is hatred, let me sow love." Where are the instruments of God's peace in the world? Are we praying to be counted among them? It takes courage to be a peacemaker. Peacemakers stand in the middle of the…

  Things that deserve my attention today:   #1 – Being in an honest and transparent relationship with God and with the people in my life.   #2 – Making positive change in the world in those areas where I have influence.   #3a – Paying attention to issues that involve correcting justice in PUBLIC…

What about an extreme makeover – spiritual edition?

    I am in a state of unready readiness.   God of readiness, of constancy, and of mystery, Invade me, overthrow my stubborn reluctance and Disperse my stagnant sentries who stagger the soul And stalwartly resist that which you insist will set me free. Mercy and grace be Your weapons of invasion, My only…