Musings

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” -Rumi The holiday season is shining bright and hopefully bringing lots of excitement, love and laughter into your life. The days seem to be filled with more cheer and it seems that more and...

By Pastor Dave Holland Many Christians yearn for a better relationship with God, and they wonder why God seems to be distant. He is nearer than you know, and He is not silent. Consider Zacchaeus in Luke 19. This successful businessman lived his life in luxury. But something was missing–he wanted...

By Sean Dietrich I‘m sitting with my Methodist mother-in-law in the living room. We are replaying old memories like worn out records. There is a ballgame playing in the background. Braves are winning. She sits in her wheelchair, nursing a nightly glass of Metamucil. I am sitting in a fold-up rollator...

By Rick Moore Our entire vacation was mapped out in great detail. First, we planned to fly to Nevada. After seeing Death Valley and Hoover Dam, we would make our way to Zion National Park in Utah. Then we would go to Bryce Canyon and Arches National Park. The next...

By Kirk McCarley, Coaching has been a blessing for me.  Through it I’ve had the occasion to encounter clients from a variety of walks of life that I might not have otherwise.  Engineers, Attorneys, Division I Sports Information Directors, Entertainers, Private Business Owners, and Social Media Content Moderators have been...

By Lauren Catanese, “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life, is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle We all have dreams. We all have visions of how we want our lives to look. We see ourselves living a certain lifestyle, having certain experiences, and becoming what...

By Myrna Conrad There are so many discrepancies in our world today that it is hard to know who or what to trust. Trust is a “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability or strength of someone or something.” I do believe that it is harder to trust today than it...

By Pastor Dave Holland “I have come to bring fire on the earth.” Luke 12:49 Jimmy Morrison and the Doors sang in the 60s, “Come on, baby, light my fire, Come on, baby, light my fire. Try to set the night on fire, yeah,” but they had no idea what they...

By Sean Dietrich JOHN—My angel story takes place when my wife was dying, and I watched everything go downhill in a matter of months. And every night, I would hear a voice tell me “You can get through this, John.” On the night she died, I heard that voice again. And...

By Rick Moore Growing up, I craved respect from others. When playing truth or dare, I usually chose dare. If dared to jump off a cliff, I didn’t ask how high the cliff was nor how deep the water was; I jumped. The motive was for others to respect the...