Be a Hope Whisperer

by | Sep 29, 2014

Sometimes it’s good to do things differently. To shake it up a bit. Variety keeps us growing, evolving, developing, maturing. Change can be challenging, but it can also be stimulating. September 2013, one year ago this month, I decided to challenge myself by starting...

No More Stinkin’ Thinkin’

by | Jan 16, 2014

Don’t believe everything you think. Go back and read that sentence again. Do you believe everything you think? Have you ever stopped to consider that just because you have a thought, doesn’t mean that it’s a fact? Yet, most of us tend to behave as if every thought we...

Letting Go When All You Want To Do Is Hold On

by | Jan 2, 2014

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions years ago. Not because I don’t believe in them; because I am not very good at keeping them. Perhaps, like me, you can relate to passionately charging into the new year with the best of intentions to stress less, relax more,...

Getting Down to Business on the Shutdown

by | Oct 9, 2013

Sometimes life just hits hard and the only thing to do is to be still. Being still – not to be confused with being shut down. Calm contemplation vs. chaotic confrontation. Big difference. One allows for space to regroup, rethink, and reformulate possible...

Living in God’s Backyard

by | Sep 3, 2013

I recently moved from Arizona to Washington state. Big change. Huge actually, I realize as I sit on my back porch surrounded by towering evergreens. It’s so beautiful here, there is green everywhere! Surely this must be what heaven looks like. The trees appear to...