“The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town.” - Proverbs 9:13-14 Junk mail has gotten savvier. There’s one method that gets me every time. It’s when I get a plain...
Why You Can’t Let Yourself Feel Content
I’ve prayed about discontentment. I’ve confessed it. I keep a gratitude journal. But it was only this past year that I got a breakthrough as to the real problem. I don’t want to be content. I’m afraid of it. I look at successful people and I hear and recycle in...
Keep Your Eyes on the Road
“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.” – Proverbs 4:25-26 “Look where you want to go” is an adage of motorcycle safety. If you hit some debris or a slick patch, and...
Hard work pays
“Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.” – Proverbs 14:4 There’s an adage that if you want to find someone to do a job, look for the busiest people. The underlying principle is that the people who have the...
Make your goals, then let ’em go
I remember hearing one study about goals that has stayed with me. The concluding results demonstrated that if you articulated and wrote down a goal, your chances of reaching that goal jumped up ten to twenty percent. If you went one step further, and spoke that goal...