STOP AND THINK - The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot! (Inspiration Line) The older we get, the more time seems to race by. Yet it moves at the same speed all the time. It’s our conception of time that determines how we feel about it. And, for...
STOP AND THINK - Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. (Thomas Carlyle, 19th century Scottish philosopher and essayist We’ve all known someone who loudly proclaimed his or her beliefs but whose behavior sometimes made us wonder about those...
I don’t know how many of you are like me, but sometimes at the end of the day, or week, I find myself wondering where the time went. I think about all the things I didn’t get done, or still want to do. With the spring weather comes new projects and even more “stuff”...
STOP AND THINK - What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. (A. W. Tozer, 20th century pastor and author) In our highly secular world many people may claim that they never think about God. But, in reality, it’s probably...
STOP AND THINK - If you don't give when you don't have enough, you won't give when you have more than enough because it's a heart issue no matter how much you have. (Mike Lee, American pastor) Sometimes we don’t give to a worthy project because our income has dwindled...
STOP AND THINK -Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. (C. S. Lewis, 20th century Christian apologist). We don’t see much display of humility today, do we? Athletes and entertainers, for the most part, seem to be pretty wrapped up...
STOP AND THINK - The challenge is to be yourself in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else. (Author unknown) If you pay attention to television commercials and magazine advertisements, you might be led to think that everyone should use the same...
STOP AND THINK - Generally speaking, there are two kinds of tests in life: adversity and prosperity. Of the two, the latter is the more difficult. (Chares Swindoll, American pastor and author) Everyone would agree, no doubt, that times of adversity are times of...
STOP AND THINK - Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. (Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States.) Coolidge went on to say, “Talent will not … Genius will not … Education will not. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” He...
STOP AND THINK - Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Helen Keller, deaf and blind American author and lecturer) No one...
STOP AND THINK - What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control. (Attributed to Thomas Edison, American inventor) While recognizing that the human mind has almost unlimited creative capacity, we may not be certain that Edison’s observation about man’s...
When I wrote my last blog a couple weeks ago about “bad things,” I had no idea I would be sitting in church the following Sunday, listening to an amazing story filled with pain, sorrow, and faith. It got me thinking about what I didn’t discuss in that blog—the...