What do you live for? How do you live for it? The answers to these questions are the mainstay of a life of excellence. Yet, we do not spend enough time to contemplate, meditate and pray about the big picture. Often corporations do the exercise. Strategy sessions they call it. Management getting together to hammer out…
Month: January 2019
147. Oh the shame, the dreadful regret!
I know I shall be so disappointed, so full of reproach, blaming myself when I find out just how I could have lived. The day I see Jesus face to face and fully grasp his character will be the day I will realize what my life could have been if only I believed the words He…
146. The feasting table of faith in the storm.
Continuing from the previous Pebbles…the disciples are in a panic. They are struggling against wind and wave, fighting for their lives. Real life. Circumstances are out of control without a clear resolution. All the good intentions of calm sessions in therapy are thrown overboard when reality overwhelms purposeful and wise life goals. Where, you may ask,…
145. Don’t worry… you are safe!
These are the most wonderful words to hear. In the panic, in the most difficult state of affairs, in the middle of the fight, within the helpless disappointment of things spiraling out of control, these words will bring calm and reason in your mind. You are out of harm’s way. You are protected. Always and everywhere…
144. The command to live by.
We are talking about the brain-bug: fear. How can we live boldly and fully? How will our lives epitomize the elements of the Christmas Advent: joy, peace, love and hope when we are crushed by the issues and dangers of modern living. All that Jesus came for, lived to exemplify and died for are rendered meaningless…
143. A most luxurious life.
It is the bug in every brain – fear. Somehow, somewhere and in some or other circumstances it will paralyze you, give you that hollow feeling inside, even sweaty hands and palpitations with an added dread of rumination, visualizing the scenarios over and over in your mind. Who can say they are not familiar with every…
Pebbles of Perpetuity 