Do The Right Thing

“I really don’t care that you went to any trouble for me. It’s not what I wanted.”

"I am grateful and sincerely appreciate you trying to help me. I pray that I will do the right thing. Thank you."


Love is designed to be absorbed in our hearts and become the life that fills our veins. Rejoice at the sight of helping hands so that love’s sentiment will live in you and you will want to it pay forward again and again.

Inspired by John 17:11-15

Above Pessimism

“I hate talking to you. All you every do is put me down.”

“I can always count on you to make me feel better.”

Offer hope instead of despair, speak of blessings rather than complaining, advocate healing instead of feeding sickness, offer help instead of throwing up your hands. You were born for greatness. Show the world you are above pessimism.

Inspired by Isaiah 61:1-3



Offer hope instead of despair, speak of blessings rather than complaining, advocate healing instead of feeding sickness, offer help instead of throwing up your hands. You were born for greatness. Show the world you are above pessimism.

An On Time God

“You do everything for her! I hate you!”

“If it were within my power I would help you.”

Inspired by Matthew 20:20-23

Jesus showed us that there were things He could do and things only His Father could grant. Learn to help yourself, pray for things that seem humanly unattainable, and accept with great faith what God appears to be doing or not. God is great and always on-time.

Goodness Shines

“They’ll get over it. I’m doing this anyway.”

“I keep myself in check by asking ‘if today were my last would I want to do that which keeps me from eternity?'”

Furnace of fire or shine like the sun. Well. . . when you put it like that . . . the sun? Choose to gleam like the sun! Let your goodness outshine any other “ness”.

Enjoy Today's Treasures

“I want a fancy car, a mansion on a hill, and a bank account that overflows with money!”

“You’d think I’d be depressed with the loss of my legs, but something inside me feels new and whole. All the more I treasure the love of family, friends and thing that I still have.”

The luxuries and catastrophes of life both offer great value & different emotional challenges. Joy & gratefulness are best enjoyed when we really value them. Enjoy the treasures you already have today!

Inspired by Matthew 13:44

Plan, Pray and Practice

“What do you want from me? I’m so tired of having to pull you along.”

“This overwhelming feeling of anxiety will pass. Give me a few minutes so that I can regroup.”

We all have patience that can lose its tolerance for others. We are humans, but can be more. Plan, pray and practice. Expect your day to be full of staying power! With an occasional time out & a conscious effort you can be more.
Inspired by Matthew 13:47-53

Honor God's Angels

Where does he get off telling us what is right or wrong. He didn’t even graduate from high school.”

“You’re a stranger but you are God sent and so wise. I can’t believe you’ve never been told these things.”

The wise and gifted are often overlooked, dismissed or putdown in their own circles. Look around you, there are holy people who stand out among the crowd. Honor God’s angels. Even better aspire 2 be one!
Inspired by Matthew 13:54-58

Straight Forward

But you deceived them. Don’t you feel the least bit of remorse?

“With you, no one has to ask. Your sincerity is evident in all that you do.”

Our thoughts, plans and behavior should not be two faced or harmful. Be straight forward about who you. Dishonest or esteemed. If even a word were not spoken, show others who you are by the way you move through life.

Inspired by Matthew 15:1-2, 10-14

God Keeps On Giving

“I don’t owe anybody anything. I did this all by myself!”
“Through God’s grace I breathe, grow and love. I thank God every day for my blessings!”

God gave you life. God gave you the breaks. God continues to give. Give a shout out to to the Lord! He is so good!

Inspired by Psalm 95:1-2,6

Be Someone To Follow

I don’t know why I put up with you. You bring out worst in me!”

"I love you as best I can. I do not regret a day I spend doing that.”

Relationships, jobs, and school will all have days of highs and lows. Move through life with love in your heart so that no day is wasted. Your walk today will leave footprints in the sand. Be someone to follow!

Inspired by Matthew 16:24-28

Pay It Forward

Why are you trying to help him? He doesn’t even want to help himself.”
“If I can touch someone’s hurting heart, it will be worth my while.”

Jesus taught us that time spent trying to help a lost sheep, a confused spirit, or a saddened soul is one of the greatest things we could ever do for each other. He does it for us every day. Pay it forward.
Inspired by Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14

Around the Corner

“I want this so bad! But everything I do gets me further and further away from it!”

“I’m not discouraged when I keep hitting block walls. I know there is something better around the corner.”

What we want today may be insignificant compared to the gift of God tomorrow. Have confidence knowing something greater than our own plans is in the works.
Inspired by Matthew 12:38-42

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

FOLLOW THE YELL BRICK ROAD, OH MY! Courage, heart, brains & getting back hometo where one feels safe were the themes of Wizard of Oz. Perhaps your shoes are not red with glitter. But stand still, in the quiet, in your bare feet, flip flops, vans, uggs, or toms and click your heels together and pray, pray, pray for what you need. You’ll find God has already given you courage, a heart, brains and a family. He also gave you something to look forward to. “Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high . . .”

Mom, Will You Remember Me?

“Goodbye Mom,” I said with a wrenched heart and salty puddles in my eyes. From the illness she didn’t know me anymore. But . . . she squeezed my hand as if to say goodbye.

I couldn’t look back, I couldn’t go back. It was as if something inside of me had died. How can a person still be breathing, living and forget their life? How could a mother not know her own child?

I could hardly swallow, my eyes felt like they were swollen shut, and my heart was bruised from a dark truth too unfeasible to believe.

Was there anything more that I could have done to stay connected to her? Wasn’t there something I could have said that would have made her remember me?

One moment I saw a blank stare, the next I was the brunt of a stranger’s anger. It was as if her kind spirit had already left her. Even though I had painstakingly bathed her, artfully yet labored to cloth her, and sometimes hastily or patiently fed her I was still an unfamiliar person.

Every day I have questioned myself “I was a good child, wasn’t I? Did I care for my mother as best I could through her illness? She knew that I loved her, didn’t she?"

God you knew I did what I could until it was physically impossible. I loved her even when I lost all patience. But even now, as I look back, I hold on to regrets and still pray as I do now asking You for forgiveness for not doing more. Could I have done more?

From here, in this quiet place, I pray for you mom. It hurts so much to know where you are. How much could you be suffering. How lonely and lost are you without a familiar living soul to comfort you? I pray that in a clear cohesive moment you will remember Christ one more time and recall that you believed that you will have eternal life. Yet selfishly, in one of those cohesive moments I wonder, "Will you remember me?"

Dear Lord, I think my heart stopped when I received the call. In one moment my dim days turned to blackness. My mom was no longer here with me to touch, to love, to hug. I’ve never felt so self-condemned, beaten and lonely. More than ever I pray to you Lord, seeking comfort in my time of sorrow.

Only you know when my grief will leave me. It could be years . . . or perhaps never -- in my lifetime. With reverence now, I pray for forgiveness for all the yesterdays that I lost hope, all the tomorrows that I may doubt my faith, and for this weak moment. Please release me from all the anger that may well up inside when I am feeling lonely, depressed and cheated. Please forgive me and help me now.

I know you created me and my mother in love. I saw the gifts you gave her and those that she shared with others. I look at my hands and wonder what part of her is in me. I witnessed her touch other’s lives.

Help me to one day begin to heal, to live again and to gladly serve others as I know my mother did. Give me the ability to be wholeheartedly charitable, feed me words of compassion, and open up windows of time that will allow me to seek and see your Goodness! I ask for these little things, for they are just nibblets of what you have done for a world filled with selfish and selfless people.

I can’t imagine what you must have felt Lord when your Son suffered through His brief teaching life and in his last days and on the cross. All I know is what I feel through my own loss. What I do hold in my heart, however, is the hope that your Son left behind. With that hope I grasps with both hands and hold on tight.

It seems we all have crosses to bear. And this thought still leaves me with a host of questions. How can I bear something that seems beyond me? How can I recover from the darkest time in my life? How can I go on?

As life takes twists and turns, I know I will always revert back to hope and faith. I know you didn’t promise that it would be easy. You didn’t say that we would like it. What you did promise is to be a God of mercy and love. In my darkess I struggle to know your mercy . . . and to receive that promise of love.

After time . . .

There were times I felt as though I could not make it through. And in the morning I always woke to one of your glorious sunrises. In that morning light I always saw the calm after the storm. I will keep my eyes set on that great light.

Thank you Lord for the graces in my life, the people you’ve put here to touch me and for your Son who gives me hope and inspiration to go on.

Amen.


P.S. Mom,you always remembered me. And I am happy for the time we had.