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Wherever God plants you is a good land. It may not be the place you would have chosen, but it is good. It is very good. You are there and He is leading you deeper into that land of fulfillment and promise.

  T – A TIC on the tic-toc scale, a TIPPING point in TIME, TO-BE written O – OPPORTUNITIES abound, obstacles obscure, but do not overwhelm. D – DOING is immediate. I cannot just be. It materializes into doing. I must DO. A – ALL we have in time is today to ACTIVATE our dreams.…

    If rejoicing is off my agenda, I must open my heart.If lamenting has no place, I must open my eyes.If questions are disallowed, I must open my mind.If loving is far removed I must open my my soul.If giving is not included, I must open my purse.When living, I must live fully.  …

“And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:   And he opened his mouth, and taught them …” – Matthew 5:1-2: The sermon on the Mount is the greatest description of kingdom living ever spoken.  Its ideals are high and unattainable in the flesh. …

“Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of…

  "Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted." – Isaiah 40:30 (ESV) “How did it get so late so soon?It's night before it's afternoon.December is here before it's June.My goodness how the time has flewn.How did it get so late so soon?” – Dr. Suess   I never expected…

Oh God, who sees me, knows me, and loves me while seeing through my pretensions,There is nothing I can tell you about myself that you do not already know.

I am a dues-paying member of the impatient club. I get impatient with myself, with individuals, with slow service, with shoddy service, with life, and sometimes, with God. I get impatient when people's attitudes don't turn on a dime, when people don't see the world the way I see it (and think that God does),…

God is perfectly capable of defending God's own honor. We struggle with it. We can't even agree on what it is. We are multi-polar in our emPHASes. We are indignant when the world does not give proper respect to the things we revere. We protest to God and we wrestle with it in His presence.…